Altered dynamic functional connectivity characteristics in adolescent depression with childhood trauma: a pilot resting-state EEG study
Yunshu Zhang, Jie Wang, Yuting Song, Shuaiyu Long, Yi Li, Tingting Hu, Qianqian Zhang, Wenqing Jin, Bing Li, Chaomeng Liu · 2026
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Yunshu Zhang and colleagues used scalp recordings to find shifting brain patterns in depressed teenagers, comparing those who lived through childhood trauma with those who did not. Their 2026 pilot study recorded resting brain waves in eighty-four adolescents: twenty-five depressed with trauma histories, twenty-seven without, and thirty-two healthy peers. Trauma and severity were scored with standard questionnaires, and the team tracked how brain networks link and unlink.
The trauma group fell ill earlier and scored more severely depressed than the other depressed group. Sorting the changing connections produced three recurring brain states. Features of those states tracked with trauma scores, which the authors read as a possible fingerprint of trauma-linked depression. They propose resting recordings, cheap and painless, might one day spot which depressed teenager carries a trauma history. That could guide trauma-focused care, though the small pilot needs larger tests.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Yunshu Zhang, Jie Wang, Yuting Song, Shuaiyu Long, Yi Li, Tingting Hu, Qianqian Zhang, Wenqing Jin, Bing Li, Chaomeng Liu |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39479 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |