Infant neural sensitivity to affective touch is associated with maternal postpartum depression.

ABSTRACT: Classic attachment theory emphasizes the sensitivity of the parent to perceive and appropriately respond to the infant's cues. However, parent-child attachment is a dyadic interaction that is also dependent upon the sensitivity of the child to the early caregiving environment. Individual differences in infant sensitivity to parental cues is likely shaped by both the early caregiving environment as well as the infant's neurobiology, such as perceptual sensitivity to social stimuli. Here, we investigated associations between maternal postpartum depression and infant neurological sensitivity to affective touch using brain signal entropy - a metric of the brain's moment-to-moment variability related to signal processing. We recruited two independent samples of infants aged 0-5 months. In Sampl

SUBMITTER: Nance MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11343122 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature