The relation of general socio-emotional processing to parenting specific behavior: a study of mothers with and without posttraumatic stress disorder.

ABSTRACT: Socio-emotional information processing during everyday human interactions has been assumed to translate to social-emotional information processing when parenting a child. Yet, few studies have examined whether this is indeed the case. This study aimed to improve on this by connecting the functional neuroimaging data when seeing socio-emotional interactions that are not parenting specific to observed maternal sensitivity. The current study considered 45 mothers of small children (12-42 months of age). It included healthy controls (HC) and mothers with interpersonal violence-related posttraumatic stress disorder (IPV-PTSD), as well as mothers without PTSD, both with and without IPV exposure. We found that anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) activity cor

SUBMITTER: Moser DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4625041 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature