My level of knowledge of the child brain is low pulling poor, although in recent months there has been an interest in me, which I try to feed by reading specialized books, knowing - yes - that I will never live up to the professionals that study or are familiar with this complex, exciting and unknown organ.
Perhaps because of this ignorance I have doubts, maybe that's why I question some things… I dont know. I say this because recently from a study led by researchers from the University of Murcia, the statement that "impulsivity is a risk factor for the development of serious behavior problems" emerges.
It will seem a bit simple what I am going to say, but don't you think that precisely impulsivity and the search for immediate pleasure are intrinsically linked to childhood? I don't know why we have to analyze this with negative connotations. But I tell you more about the study that motivates this post.
Luis J. Fuentes is the lead author of the study, and who explains that “among children with a typical development, individual differences in their interaction with the environment are observed”
Experts have asked a group of parents to answer some questions related to the impulsive behavior of their children; and after the answers, the participating children were 'classified' (it sounds a bit ugly, in my opinion) according to their impulsive behavior.
With these results in hand, neuroimaging techniques were used to study the patterns of brain connectivity, analyzing them with the level of impulsivity perceived in children.
We found that the higher the level of impulsiveness of the children, the greater the alteration in the connections between the posterior cingulate cortex and the right angular gyrus (between these separately and the areas that are activated when cognitive tasks are performed), which also It is observed in people with antisocial behavior
Some nuances
Impulsivity is typified as a basic personality trait that causes difficulties to inhibit the response to a stimulus, and predisposes to unplanned reactions without considering negative consequences.
But I also have to tell you something that I found interesting is that researchers say that What parents perceive about their children's behavior is reflected in their brain connectivity patterns, and this is information that allows us to verify at a neo-anatomic level what is observed daily. Have you heard of the "self-fulfilling prophecy"?
I do not leave without telling you that the sample was composed of only 24 individuals, so either the population universe was composed of a closed group of children (a class for example) or it could be nothing representative. In any case it seems that for a few years, experts associate high levels of impulsivity with behavioral problems, and could be characteristic of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or of those with antisocial personality traits.
They do well to clarify that these 'problems have been presented for a few years, and I would like to know if someone could think of freeing extracurricular burdens and unnecessary obligations taking into account the age of these children, for later re-analyze those we label as behavioral problems. I am curious to know if letting children be children, and eliminating causative factors these diagnoses would still be presented.
And I'm also curious to know if parental acceptance would modify child behaviorFor this, perhaps we should banish the use of labels, or positivize (for example 'insistent' instead of 'heavy'; 'restless' instead of 'unruly', etc ...).
