Mom’s voice loses its grip for teens

 

As kids grow up, unfamiliar voices get more interesting

By Laura Sanders

Young kids’ brains are especially tuned to their mothers’ voices. Teenagers’ brains, in their typical rebellious glory, are most decidedly not.

That conclusion, reported on April 28 in the Journal of Neuroscience, may seem laughably obvious to parents of teens, including neuroscientist Daniel Abrams of Stanford University School of Medicine. “I have two teenaged boys myself, and it’s a kind of funny result,” he says.

But the finding may be deeper than a punch line. As kids grow up and expand their social connections beyond family, their brains need to be attuned to that growing world. “Just as an infant is tuned into a mom, adolescents have this whole other class of sounds and voices that they need to tune into,” Abrams says.

He and colleagues scanned the brains of 7 to 16-year-olds as they heard the voices of either their mothers or unfamiliar women. To focus the experiment on just the sound of a voice, the words spoken were gibberish.

Abrams and colleagues have previously shown that in kinds ages 7 to 12, certain regions of the brain – particularly those parts involved in detecting rewards and paying attention – respond more strongly to mom’s voice than a voice of an unknown woman. But in these same brain regions in teens, the new study finds, unfamiliar voices elicited greater responses than mom’s. The shift seems to happen between ages 13 and 14.

It’s not that these brain areas stop responding to mom, Abram says. Rather, the unfamiliar voices become more rewarding and worthy of attention. That’s how it should be, Abrams says. Exploring new people and situations in a hallmark of adolescence.

Voices can carry powerful signals. Biological anthropologist Leslie Seltzer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and colleagues have found that when stressed girls hear mom’s voice on the phone, their stress hormones drop. The new results support the idea that the brain changes to reflect new needs, Seltzer says. Though, she notes, the results might change across varying mother-child relationships.

For now, teens and parents frustrated by missed messages can take heart, Abram says. “This is the way the brain is wired, and there’s good reason for it.”

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In the brain, not the ears

Although tinnitus may begin as an injury to ear cells, it’s accepted science now that the condition has implications beyond the ears to the brain. Josef Rauschecker and his colleagues in the Department of Neuroscience, the Division of Audiology, and the Department of Otolaryngology at Georgetown University have used brain imaging studies to reveal some other scary results: they observed a significant loss of volume in an area located in the frontal lobe of the brain in people with tinnitus.

Researchers at the University of Illinois found that chronic tinnitus is also linked to changes in a region of the brain called the precuneus, part of the parietal lobes that sit near the top of the skull. The precuneus is connected to two inversely related networks in the brain: the “dorsal attention network,” activated by stimulation from incoming sensory information like touch and noise, and the “default mode network,” which operates when the brain is at rest and not occupied by anything in particular.

“When the default mode network is on, the dorsal attention network is off, and vice versa. We found that the precuneus in tinnitus patients seems to be playing a role in that relationship,” said tinnitus researcher Sara Schmidt.

The University of Illinois team found that in patients with chronic tinnitus, the dorsal attention network is working more often than the default mode network, which means the brain isn’t relaxing and disengaging from surrounding stimuli, creating the potential for mental fatigue. And the more severe the tinnitus, the more activated the dorsal attention network.

“This could explain why many reports being tired more often. Additionally, their attention may be engaged more with their tinnitus than necessary, and that may lessen their attention to other things,” University of Illinois professor of speech and hearing science Fatima Husain said. “If you have bothersome tinnitus, this may be why you have concentration issues.”

Interestingly, patients with recent-onset tinnitus did not show differences in their precuneus network connections compared to controls, suggesting that the changes in the brain come on after the tinnitus, not the other way around.

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