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DATE: August 13, 2026 at 02:00PM
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-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Why do some children develop ADHD after stressful events while others do not?
Children exposed to stressful life events may face a greater risk of developing ADHD symptoms, but a new study suggests that vulnerability depends partly on family mental health, genetic risk, and brain development. These findings were published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
ADHD is commonly associated with difficulties involving attention, impulsive behavior, and activity levels. Researchers have long known that both inherited factors and environmental experiences contribute to ADHD. Stressful events during childhood, including violence, serious accidents, or other major disruptions, may interfere with emotional development and brain systems involved in attention and self-control.
Yet exposure to stress is not a straightforward explanation for ADHD. Some children show substantial difficulties after stressful experiences, while others appear relatively resilient. The new study aimed to identify the factors that might explain these differences.
Led by Seung Yun Choi of Seoul National University, the research team examined data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study. The initial group included 6,303 children, 46.8 percent of whom were female, aged approximately 9.9 years at the beginning of the study. The children were assessed again after one year and two years.
The researchers considered several types of information, including ADHD symptoms, stressful life events, parental mental health difficulties, genetic measures, and connections between brain regions. Choi and colleagues then utilized a machine-learning approach, an advanced form of data analysis, to examine the complex relationships between these factors.
The results revealed that stressful experiences were associated with increased ADHD symptoms at both follow-up points. However, the size of this association varied considerably between children. At the one-year follow-up, children considered most vulnerable had higher levels of parental depression and parental ADHD. They also differed from lower-risk children on a genetic measure related to smoking behavior.
By the two-year follow-up, parental mental health problems remained important, and a higher genetic risk score for ADHD also became a significant factor. The researchers also identified differences in the physical connections between parts of the brain involved in planning, attention, and behavioral control.
The contrast between the groups was substantial. At one year, the estimated effect of stressful events was more than twice as large in the highest-risk group as in the lowest-risk group. A similar pattern was observed after two years.
The authors emphasized that their findings “underscore the importance of integrating environmental, genetic, and neural variables to identify children vulnerable or resilient to developing ADHD symptoms following early-life stress.”
The findings do not mean that genes determine whether a child will develop ADHD, nor that family mental health difficulties inevitably lead to symptoms. Instead, they suggest that children may differ in how strongly they respond to stressful environments. Family support, early assistance, and treatment for parental mental health problems could therefore be important parts of prevention.
The study has several limitations. For instance, the definition of stressful life events the authors utilized is based on the level of exposure, which may not adequately capture the subjective intensity of these experiences.
The study, “Individual differences in effects of stressful life events on childhood ADHD: genetic, neural, and familial contributions,” was authored by Seung Yun Choi, Jinwoo Lee, Junghoon Park, Eunji Lee, Bo-Gyeom Kim, Gakyung Kim, Yoonjung Yoonie Joo, and Jiook Cha.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #ADHD #ChildDevelopment #StressAndADHD #FamilyMentalHealth #Genetics #NeuralDevelopment #BrainConnections #AdolescentBrainCognition #MentalHealthAwareness #EarlyIntervention
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DATE: August 13, 2026 at 02:00PM
SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG** Research quality varies widely from fantastic to small exploratory studies. Please check research methods when conclusions are very important to you. **
-------------------------------------------------TITLE: Why do some children develop ADHD after stressful events while others do not?
Children exposed to stressful life events may face a greater risk of developing ADHD symptoms, but a new study suggests that vulnerability depends partly on family mental health, genetic risk, and brain development. These findings were published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
ADHD is commonly associated with difficulties involving attention, impulsive behavior, and activity levels. Researchers have long known that both inherited factors and environmental experiences contribute to ADHD. Stressful events during childhood, including violence, serious accidents, or other major disruptions, may interfere with emotional development and brain systems involved in attention and self-control.
Yet exposure to stress is not a straightforward explanation for ADHD. Some children show substantial difficulties after stressful experiences, while others appear relatively resilient. The new study aimed to identify the factors that might explain these differences.
Led by Seung Yun Choi of Seoul National University, the research team examined data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study. The initial group included 6,303 children, 46.8 percent of whom were female, aged approximately 9.9 years at the beginning of the study. The children were assessed again after one year and two years.
The researchers considered several types of information, including ADHD symptoms, stressful life events, parental mental health difficulties, genetic measures, and connections between brain regions. Choi and colleagues then utilized a machine-learning approach, an advanced form of data analysis, to examine the complex relationships between these factors.
The results revealed that stressful experiences were associated with increased ADHD symptoms at both follow-up points. However, the size of this association varied considerably between children. At the one-year follow-up, children considered most vulnerable had higher levels of parental depression and parental ADHD. They also differed from lower-risk children on a genetic measure related to smoking behavior.
By the two-year follow-up, parental mental health problems remained important, and a higher genetic risk score for ADHD also became a significant factor. The researchers also identified differences in the physical connections between parts of the brain involved in planning, attention, and behavioral control.
The contrast between the groups was substantial. At one year, the estimated effect of stressful events was more than twice as large in the highest-risk group as in the lowest-risk group. A similar pattern was observed after two years.
The authors emphasized that their findings “underscore the importance of integrating environmental, genetic, and neural variables to identify children vulnerable or resilient to developing ADHD symptoms following early-life stress.”
The findings do not mean that genes determine whether a child will develop ADHD, nor that family mental health difficulties inevitably lead to symptoms. Instead, they suggest that children may differ in how strongly they respond to stressful environments. Family support, early assistance, and treatment for parental mental health problems could therefore be important parts of prevention.
The study has several limitations. For instance, the definition of stressful life events the authors utilized is based on the level of exposure, which may not adequately capture the subjective intensity of these experiences.
The study, “Individual differences in effects of stressful life events on childhood ADHD: genetic, neural, and familial contributions,” was authored by Seung Yun Choi, Jinwoo Lee, Junghoon Park, Eunji Lee, Bo-Gyeom Kim, Gakyung Kim, Yoonjung Yoonie Joo, and Jiook Cha.
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#psychology #counseling #socialwork #psychotherapy @psychotherapist @psychotherapists @psychology @socialpsych @socialwork @psychiatry #mentalhealth #psychiatry #healthcare #depression #psychotherapist #ADHD #ChildDevelopment #StressAndADHD #FamilyMentalHealth #Genetics #NeuralDevelopment #BrainConnections #AdolescentBrainCognition #MentalHealthAwareness #EarlyIntervention
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"These observations argue that both local intrajunctional and long-distance interjunctional synaptic competition are activity-mediated and that the structure of mature neural circuits arises from the activity patterns of developing circuits."
From: "Connectomic evidence that ordered activity drives neuromuscular network formation", Yaron Meirovitch et al. 2026 (Lichtman lab).
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"These observations argue that both local intrajunctional and long-distance interjunctional synaptic competition are activity-mediated and that the structure of mature neural circuits arises from the activity patterns of developing circuits."
From: "Connectomic evidence that ordered activity drives neuromuscular network formation", Yaron Meirovitch et al. 2026 (Lichtman lab).
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02344-7 -
¿Sabías que todos estos descubrimientos en #neurociencias se hicieron en #Uruguay y usando #insectos ?
Did you know all these #neuroscience discoveries were made in Uruguay using #insects ?
Tal vez es hora de que leas el #preprint de la #revision en #accesoabierto que escribimos con @constanzasilvera
Maybe it's time for you to read the #openaccess #review that @constanzasilvera and I wrote at
#biology #biologia #ciencia #science #visualsystem #ultrastructure #vision #desarrollo #development #neuraldevelopment #latex
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This is really exciting!
A long expected outome from my postdoc at Rafael Cantera's lab in #Uruguay in collaboration with Boris Egger in at @unifr is now at @biorxiv_devbioUsing David Morton's (OHSU) flies we found that hypoxia-driven guanylyl cyclases regulate brain size!
Atypical soluble guanylyl cyclases control brain size in Drosophila
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.07.17.603894v1
#Drosophila #neuroscience #development
@SocNeuroUy #iibce #neuraldevelopment #desarrollo #brain #neurociencia #insects #preprint @ohsunews @ladiaria @leo___lagos -
Today in likely controversial and potentially very high-impact studies in #Drosophila:
“Exposure to trans fat during the developmental period of Drosophila melanogaster alters the composition of fatty acids in the head and induces depression-like behavior”, by Luana Barreto Meichtry et al. 2023 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36933760/
Found via: https://mathstodon.xyz/@flypapers@botsin.space/110048256472016606
#nutrition #depression #NeuralDevelopment -
Today in likely controversial and potentially very high-impact studies in #Drosophila:
“Exposure to trans fat during the developmental period of Drosophila melanogaster alters the composition of fatty acids in the head and induces depression-like behavior”, by Luana Barreto Meichtry et al. 2023 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36933760/
Found via: https://mathstodon.xyz/@flypapers@botsin.space/110048256472016606
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I just discussed this with a friend - a paper well worth reading.
Atzil, Shir, et al. "Growing a social brain." Nature human behaviour 2.9 (2018): 624-636.
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I just discussed this with a friend - a paper well worth reading.
Atzil, Shir, et al. "Growing a social brain." Nature human behaviour 2.9 (2018): 624-636.
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Very happy to share our new paper, showing that the ontogenetic trajectory of trabecular bone tracks neural development and life-history variation among humans and non-human primates. If applied to the fossil record, could lead to new ways to interpret the evolution of developmental trajectories of the brain. Great work by Jaap Saers, and coauthors Tim Ryan and Adam Gordon.
#humanevolution #biomechanics #locomotion #ontogeny #paleoanthropology #neuraldevelopment