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Facial expressions and EEG in infants of intrusive and withdrawn mothers with depressive symptoms.

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Diego, MA; Field, T; Hart, S; Hernandez-Reif, M; Jones, N; Cullen, C; Schanberg, S; Kuhn, C
Published in: Depress Anxiety
2002

When intrusive and withdrawn mothers with depressive symptoms modeled happy, surprised, and sad expressions, their 3-month-old infants did not differentially respond to these expressions or show EEG changes. When a stranger modeled these expressions, the infants of intrusive vs. withdrawn mothers looked more at the surprised and sad expressions and showed greater relative right EEG activity in response to the surprise and sad expressions as compared to the happy expressions. These findings suggest that the infants of intrusive mothers with depressive symptoms showed more differential responding to the facial expressions than the infants of withdrawn mothers. In addition, the infants of intrusive vs. infants of withdrawn mothers showed increased salivary cortisol following the interactions, suggesting that they were more stressed by the interactions.

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Depress Anxiety

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ISSN

1091-4269

Publication Date

2002

Volume

15

Issue

1

Start / End Page

10 / 17

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Visual Perception
  • Social Alienation
  • Psychiatry
  • Mothers
  • Mother-Child Relations
  • Infant Behavior
  • Infant
  • Humans
  • Functional Laterality
  • Female
 

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Diego, M. A., Field, T., Hart, S., Hernandez-Reif, M., Jones, N., Cullen, C., … Kuhn, C. (2002). Facial expressions and EEG in infants of intrusive and withdrawn mothers with depressive symptoms. Depress Anxiety, 15(1), 10–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.1079
Diego, Miguel A., Tiffany Field, Sybil Hart, Maria Hernandez-Reif, Nancy Jones, Christy Cullen, Saul Schanberg, and Cynthia Kuhn. “Facial expressions and EEG in infants of intrusive and withdrawn mothers with depressive symptoms.Depress Anxiety 15, no. 1 (2002): 10–17. https://doi.org/10.1002/da.1079.
Diego MA, Field T, Hart S, Hernandez-Reif M, Jones N, Cullen C, et al. Facial expressions and EEG in infants of intrusive and withdrawn mothers with depressive symptoms. Depress Anxiety. 2002;15(1):10–7.
Diego, Miguel A., et al. “Facial expressions and EEG in infants of intrusive and withdrawn mothers with depressive symptoms.Depress Anxiety, vol. 15, no. 1, 2002, pp. 10–17. Pubmed, doi:10.1002/da.1079.
Diego MA, Field T, Hart S, Hernandez-Reif M, Jones N, Cullen C, Schanberg S, Kuhn C. Facial expressions and EEG in infants of intrusive and withdrawn mothers with depressive symptoms. Depress Anxiety. 2002;15(1):10–17.
Journal cover image

Published In

Depress Anxiety

DOI

ISSN

1091-4269

Publication Date

2002

Volume

15

Issue

1

Start / End Page

10 / 17

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Visual Perception
  • Social Alienation
  • Psychiatry
  • Mothers
  • Mother-Child Relations
  • Infant Behavior
  • Infant
  • Humans
  • Functional Laterality
  • Female