Girls’ depressive symptoms typically increase in adolescence, with individual differences in course and severity being key risk factors for impaired emotional functioning in young adulthood. Given the continued brain white matter (WM) maturation that occurs in adolescence, the present study tested whether structural connectivity patterns in late adolescence are associated with variation in the course of depression symptom severity throughout adolescence.

中文翻译：

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女孩青春期后期的大脑结构连接与抑郁症状的历史有关。


女孩的抑郁症状通常会在青春期加重，其病程和严重程度的个体差异是成年早期情绪功能受损的关键风险因素。鉴于青春期发生的持续脑白质（WM）成熟，本研究测试了青春期后期的结构连接模式是否与整个青春期抑郁症状严重程度的变化相关。