Intergenerational neuroimaging study: mother-infant functional connectivity similarity and the role of infant and maternal factors.

ABSTRACT: Mother and infant neural and behavioral synchrony is important for infant development during the first years of life. Recent studies also suggest that neural risk markers associated with parental psychopathology may be transmitted across generations before symptoms emerge in offspring. There is limited understanding of how early similarity in brain functioning between 2 generations emerges. In the current study, using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we examined the functional connectivity (FC) similarity between mothers and newborns during the first 3 months after the infant's birth. We found that FC similarity between mothers and infants increased as infant age increased. Furthermore, we examined whether maternal factors such as maternal socioeconomic status and prenatal maternal d

SUBMITTER: Kim P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9618162 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature