Early maternal care and amygdala habituation to emotional stimuli in adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Evidence suggests that maternal care constitutes a protective factor for psychopathology which may be conditional on the level of family adversity. Given that psychopathology is frequently linked with social deficits and the amygdala with social functioning, we investigated the impact of early maternal care on amygdala function under high vs low familial risk for psychopathology. Amygdala activity and habituation during an emotional face-matching paradigm was analyzed in participants of an epidemiological cohort study followed since birth (n = 172, 25 years). Early mother-infant interaction was assessed during a standardized nursing and play setting at the age of 3 months. Information on familial risk during the offspring's childhood and on the participants' lifetime psychopathology was ob

SUBMITTER: Holz NE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8483279 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature