ArticleBehavioral and brain functions : BBF2020
Maternal depression is associated with altered functional connectivity between neural circuits related to visual, auditory, and cognitive processing during stories listening in preschoolers.
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- Neurodevelopmental Impact of Maternal Postnatal Depression: A Systematic Review of EEG Biomarkers in Infants.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Examining the relationship between psychosocial adversity and inhibitory control: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study of children growing up in extreme poverty.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2025Article
- Parent-child couples display shared neural fingerprints while listening to stories.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Higher access to screens is related to decreased functional connectivity between neural networks associated with basic attention skills and cognitive control in children.Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence · 2023Article
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- Altered Brain Function in Treatment-Resistant and Non-treatment-resistant Depression Patients: A Resting-State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Auditory Mismatch Responses to Emotional Stimuli in 3-Year-Olds in Relation to Prenatal Maternal Depression Symptoms.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundMaternal depression can influence the early activity of a mother reading stories to a young child, as depressed mothers are less likely to read to their children. Here, maternal depression association to neurobiological circuitry of narrative comprehension, visualization, and executive functions during stories listening was examined in 21 4-year-old girls and their mothers. Maternal depression scores were collected from the mothers, and functional MRI during stories listening was collected from the children.
resultsIncreased maternal depression was related to decreased functional connectivity between visualization and auditory regions and increased connectivity between the right visual cortex and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the children.
conclusionsThis study highlights the need to monitor maternal depression and provide interventions to ensure positive linguistic outcomes in children.
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