The relation between parent depressive symptoms and neural correlates of attentional control in offspring: A preliminary study.

ABSTRACT: Offspring of depressed parents are at significantly elevated risk for depressive disorders themselves; however, the specific mechanisms associated with this risk are not well known. Given the well-established link between parental depression and biased attention for negative stimuli in children, this preliminary study sought to examine the neural correlates of directing attention toward and away from emotional faces in children and adolescents in association with parent's current depressive symptoms. Forty-two youth (age 7-18 years) completed a task with conditions that manipulated whether participants were instructed to match emotional faces (explicit emotion processing) or match shapes in the context of emotional face distractors (implicit emotion processing) during functional magnetic r

SUBMITTER: Burkhouse KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5415428 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature