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Associations between stress exposure and new mothers' brain responses to infant cry sounds.
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- Prenatal Stress and Maternal Role in Neurodevelopment.Annual review of developmental psychology · 2024Article
- Stress-induced modulation of maternal behavior and mesolimbic dopamine function.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2024Article
- Neural correlates of altered emotional responsivity to infant stimuli in mothers who use substances.Journal of psychiatric research · 2024Article
- Age and parous-experience dependent changes in emotional contagion for positive infant sounds.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Infant crying predicts real-time fluctuations in maternal mental health in ecologically valid home settings.Developmental psychology · 2023Article
- The maternal brain is more flexible and responsive at rest: effective connectivity of the parental caregiving network in postpartum mothers.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Neural activation to infant cry among Latina and non-Latina White mothers.Behavioural brain research · 2023Article
- Cannabis use during pregnancy and hemodynamic responses to infant cues in pregnancy: an exploratory study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Trait coping styles and the maternal neural and behavioral sensitivity to an infant.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Maternal socioeconomic disadvantage, neural function during volitional emotion regulation, and parenting.Social neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Exposure to severe stress has been linked to negative postpartum outcomes among new mothers including mood disorders and harsh parenting. Non-human animal studies show that stress exposure disrupts the normative adaptation of the maternal brain, thus identifying a neurobiological mechanism by which stress can lead to negative maternal outcomes. However, little is known about the impact of stress exposure on the maternal brain response to infant cues in human mothers. We examined the association of stress exposure with brain response to infant cries and maternal behaviors, in a socioeconomically diverse (low- and middle-income) sample of first-time mothers (N=53). Exposure to stress across socioeconomic, environmental, and psychosocial domains was associated with reduced brain response to infant cry sounds in several regions, including the right insula/inferior frontal gyrus and superior temporal gyrus. Reduced activation in these regions was further associated with lower maternal sensitivity observed during a mother-infant interaction. The findings demonstrate that higher levels of stress exposure may be associated with reduced brain response to an infant's cry in regions that are important for emotional and social information processing, and that reduced brain responses may further be associated with increased difficulties in developing positive mother-infant relationships.
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