Neural reactivity to infant emotion cues during pregnancy: Associations with peripartum anxiety and depressive symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pregnancy is marked by physiological and psychosocial changes for women, and event-related potentials (ERP) are comfortable and safe for examining brain function across pregnancy. The late positive potential (LPP) ERP, a measure of allocated attention to emotional stimuli, may provide insight into associations between internalizing symptoms and neural processing of infant emotion cues, which may be particularly salient in this life stage.

Methods

We developed a task to examine neural and behavioral responses to infant faces in pregnant women (N = 120, Mage=31.09, SD=4.81), the impact of auditory infant cries on the LPP to faces, and associations between the LPP and anxiety and depressive symptoms. Participants matched distressed, happy, and neutral infant faces an

SUBMITTER: Cardenas EF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10591923 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature