Heightened response to positive facial cues as a potential marker of resilience following childhood adversity.

ABSTRACT: Background: Childhood maltreatment profoundly influences social and emotional development, increasing psychiatric risk. Alterations in the implicit processing of threat-related cues following early abuse and neglect represent a marker of mental health vulnerability. Less is known about how early adversity influences the perception of positive social cues, despite their central role in establishing and maintaining social interactions and their association with better mental health outcomes.Methods: The sample consisted of 42 children and adolescents with substantiated childhood maltreatment experiences and 32 peers (mean age 13.3), matched on age, pubertal status, gender, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and cognitive ability. A computerised experimental task assessed the perc

SUBMITTER: Gerin MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10849006 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature