Alteration of Emotion Knowledge and Its Relationship with Emotion Regulation and Psychopathological Behavior in Children with Cerebral Palsy

Belmonte-Darraz, Saliha; Montoro, Casandra I.; Andrade, Nara Côrtes; Montoya, Pedro; Riquelme, Inmaculada

doi:10.1007/s10803-020-04605-1

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“…There are a few limitations of the presented study that should be considered. First, the EMT test was primarily designed for younger children (Morgan et al, 2010; but it has been also used in older children and adolescents; Belmonte‐Darraz et al, 2021; Brown et al, 2021; de Oliveira et al, 2023). Results from the current study suggest that EMT task was relatively easy for children aged 6–9 years.…”

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Olfactory training improves emotion matching ability in 6–9 years old children — preliminary evidence

Pieniak,

Rokosz,

Ivcevic

et al. 2024

Journal of Sensory Studies

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Emotion knowledge involves the ability to recognize and express emotions and understand emotional processes. The neural substrates of emotion knowledge include i.a. the amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex, and anterior cingulate cortex. These structures are also involved in processing olfactory stimuli and their volume and functional activity have been shown to increase after a period of regular olfactory stimulation (olfactory training, OT). We verified if OT will improve one aspect of emotion knowledge — the ability to match emotional facial expressions. Eighty‐three children (39 boys) aged 6–9 years were randomly assigned either to an OT group (OTG) that smelled a set of four odors (lemon, cloves, eucalyptus, rose) twice a day for 12 weeks or to a placebo group that performed the training with odorless stimuli. Children in the OTG (n = 40) matched emotional facial expressions significantly better after OT as compared with their baseline score. This effect was not present in the placebo group (n = 43) whose scores remained the same after OT.Practical applicationsThis novel finding suggests the potential of olfactory stimulation in supporting emotion knowledge in children and bridges recent findings in sensory studies, psychophysiology, and emotional development. Further studies are necessary to delineate which aspects of emotion knowledge might be enhanced by OT. In future, OT might be potentially included in programs designed for groups with specific emotion knowledge deficits.

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confidence: 99%

Olfactory training improves emotion matching ability in 6–9 years old children — preliminary evidence

Pieniak,

Rokosz,

Ivcevic

et al. 2024

Journal of Sensory Studies

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“…The lower PFC hemodynamic activation in children with CP may also be attributed to psychological factors. Children with CP experience difficulties with sustained attention (Bottcher et al, 2010) and emotional regulation (Belmonte‐Darraz et al, 2021) that could exacerbate the perceived challenge of the progressive LSUT. Additionally, children with CP use greater cortical resources for similar motor output compared to typically developing children, suggesting the amount of cortical resources available decreases as the intensity of activity increases (Short et al, 2020).…”

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Prefrontal cortex hemodynamic activity during a test of lower extremity functional muscle strength in children with cerebral palsy: A functional near‐infrared spectroscopy study

Licea,

Khan,

Singh

et al. 2023

Eur J of Neuroscience

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Children with cerebral palsy (CP) exhibit impaired motor control and significant muscle weakness due to a brain lesion. However, studies that assess the relationship between brain activity and performance on dynamic functional muscle strength assessments in CP are needed. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of a progressive lateral step‐up test on prefrontal cortex (PFC) hemodynamic activity in children with CP. Fourteen ambulatory children with spastic CP (Gross Motor Function Classification System level I; 5–11 y) and 14 age‐ and sex‐matched typically developing control children completed a progressive lateral step‐up test at incremental step heights (0, 10, 15 and 20 cm) using their non‐dominant lower limb. Hemodynamic activity in the PFC was assessed using non‐invasive, portable functional neuroimaging (functional near‐infrared spectroscopy). Children with CP completed fewer repetitions at each step height and exhibited lower PFC hemodynamic activity across step heights compared to controls. Lower PFC activation in CP was maintained after statistically controlling for the number of repetitions completed at each step height. PFC hemodynamic activity was not associated with LSUT task performance in children with CP, but a positive relationship was observed in controls at the most challenging 20 cm step height. The results suggest there is an altered PFC recruitment pattern in children with CP during a highly dynamic test of functional strength. Further studies are needed to explore the mechanisms underlying the suppressed PFC activation observed in children with CP compared to typically developing children.

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“…More specifically, this theory suggests that successful emotion recognition provides contextual information about one’s current situation, which, in turn, helps a person identify and execute the appropriate emotion regulation strategies needed to enact context-specific goals (Barrett et al, 2001; Hoemann et al, 2019). Despite initial, empirical support for the constructionist theory of emotion suggesting that emotion recognition and related constructs (i.e., “emotion knowledge” and “emotion labeling”) are positively correlated with emotion regulation in early childhood (Denham & Burton, 2003; Ornaghi et al, 2019) and adolescence (Belmonte-Darraz et al, 2021), little is known about the predictive nature of this relationship. Given longitudinal studies find that atypical emotional development is a robust risk factor for depression across the life course (Cole et al, 2008; Luby & Belden, 2006; Vogel et al, 2019), more research is warranted on specific emotion processing pathways of depression risk across development.…”

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Childhood emotion dysregulation mediates the relationship between preschool emotion labeling and adolescent depressive symptoms.

Hollender,

Elsayed,

Vogel

et al. 2024

Emotion

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Deficits in emotion processing (e.g., emotion labeling and regulation) are widely implicated in depression risk. While prior literature documents these deficits in concurrence with depression, more research is needed to investigate emotion processing pathways of depression risk across development. The purpose of this study was to investigate if emotion processes (i.e., emotion labeling and emotion regulation/dysregulation) in early and middle childhood predict adolescent depressive symptom severity in a prospective sample. Data were analyzed from a longitudinal study of diverse preschoolers oversampled for depressive symptoms using measures of preschool emotion labeling of faces (i.e., Facial Affect Comprehension Evaluation), middle childhood emotion regulation and dysregulation (i.e., emotion regulation checklist), and adolescent depressive symptoms (i.e., PAPA, CAPA, and KSADS-PL diagnostic interviews). Multilevel models indicated that preschoolers with depression had similar development of emotion labeling in early childhood as peers. Mediation analyses revealed that deficits in preschool-aged anger and surprise labeling ability indirectly predicted higher adolescent depressive symptom severity through increased middle childhood emotion lability/negativity, not decreased emotion regulation. Adolescent depression may be predicted by an emotion processing pathway that spans from early childhood to adolescence, and findings may generalize to high risk for depression youth samples. Specifically, poor emotion labeling in early childhood may lead to increased childhood emotion lability/negativity, which increases the risk for adolescent depressive symptom severity. Findings may help identify specific emotion processing relations in childhood that increase the risk for depression and inform intervention aimed at improving preschoolers’ anger and surprise labeling.

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Alteration of Emotion Knowledge and Its Relationship with Emotion Regulation and Psychopathological Behavior in Children with Cerebral Palsy

Cited by 10 publications

References 71 publications

Olfactory training improves emotion matching ability in 6–9 years old children — preliminary evidence

Olfactory training improves emotion matching ability in 6–9 years old children — preliminary evidence

Prefrontal cortex hemodynamic activity during a test of lower extremity functional muscle strength in children with cerebral palsy: A functional near‐infrared spectroscopy study

Childhood emotion dysregulation mediates the relationship between preschool emotion labeling and adolescent depressive symptoms.

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