ArticleJournal of abnormal psychology2016
Attentional biases in children of depressed mothers: An event-related potential (ERP) study.
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- Emotion Regulation as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Cognitive Biases and Depressive Symptoms in Depressed, At-risk and Healthy Children and Adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2021Article
- Using mobile eye-tracking technology to examine adolescent daughters' attention to maternal affect during a conflict discussion.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
- Relationship Between Attention Bias and Psychological Index in Individuals With Chronic Low Back Pain: A Preliminary Event-Related Potential Study.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2020Article
- Looking for the negative: Depressive symptoms in adolescent girls are associated with sustained attention to a potentially critical judge during in vivo social evaluation.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2019Article
- Family Risk for Depression and Prioritization of Religion or Spirituality: Early Neurophysiological Modulations of Motivated Attention.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- [Effectiveness of cigarette-pack warning labels in capturing the attention of smokers and nonsmokersEficácia das tarjas de advertência em maços de cigarro para atrair a atenção de fumantes e não fumantes].Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2018Article
- Motivated attention and family risk for depression: Neuronal generator patterns at scalp elicited by lateralized aversive pictures reveal blunted emotional responsivity.NeuroImage. Clinical · 2017Article
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Abstract
Although a number of studies have reported that children of depressed, compared to nondepressed, parents exhibit biased attention to sad facial stimuli, the direction of this bias remains unclear; some studies find evidence of preferential attention toward sad faces whereas others find evidence of attention avoidance. In the current study, we used event-related potentials (ERPs) to assess children's attention to emotional stimuli using a spatial cueing task. Across all indices of attention bias (N2pc and sustained posterior contralateral negativity [SPCN] time locked to face onset, P3b time locked to probe onset, reaction times [RTs] to probes), children of mothers with a history of major depressive disorder (MDD) during the child's life exhibited less attention to sad faces than children of never depressed mothers. For two of these indices (SPCN and RTs), the attention biases for the offspring of depressed mothers was not specific to sadness and was observed for all emotional expressions. Group differences in the ERP indices were maintained when controlling for the influence of mothers' and children's current symptoms of depression and anxiety, mothers' history of anxiety disorders, and children's history of MDD and anxiety disorders, suggesting that the results are specific to mothers' history of MDD. (PsycINFO Database Record
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