Dyadic Neural Similarity During Stress in Mother-Child Dyads.

ABSTRACT: Shared psychological processes between individuals occur most between a mother and her child because the mother-child bond is one of the closest forms of human attachment, in which a mother and her child are essentially wired to connect. We recruited mother-child pairs (N_dyad  = 19; adolescent: M_age  = 13.74, 11 males; mothers: M_age  = 44.26), who each completed an fMRI scan. We examined dyadic neural representational similarity as adolescents completed a stress task and mothers observed their child's performance during the same task. On average, mothers and their children did not show similar neural patterns during stress. However, neural similarity varied depending on family connectedness, such that only dyads reporting high family connectedness showed si

SUBMITTER: Lee TH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6402773 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature