Maternal depression impacts child psychopathology across the first decade of life: Oxytocin and synchrony as markers of resilience

Priel, Avital; Djalovski, Amir; Zagoory‐Sharon, Orna; Feldman, Ruth

doi:10.1111/jcpp.12880

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“…At 10 years and pre‐adolescence, more than 50% of these children still received a psychiatric diagnosis, even when mothers remitted, highlighting the long‐term effect of early exposure. Higher externalizing and internalizing symptoms were also reported in children of depressed mothers 227 .…”

Section: The Making Of the Resilient Child: Three Longitudinal High‐rmentioning

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What is resilience: an affiliative neuroscience approach

2020

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Resilience – a key topic in clinical science and practice – still lacks a clear conceptualization that integrates its evolutionary and human‐specific features, refrains from exclusive focus on fear physiology, incorporates a developmental approach, and, most importantly, is not based on the negation (i.e., absence of symptoms following trauma). Building on the initial condition of mammals, whose brain matures in the context of the mother's body and caregiving behavior, we argue that systems and processes that participate in tuning the brain to the social ecology and adapting to its hardships mark the construct of resilience. These include the oxytocin system, the affiliative brain, and biobehavioral synchrony, all characterized by great flexibility across phylogenesis and ontogenesis. Three core features of resilience are outlined: plasticity, sociality and meaning. Mechanisms of sociality by which coordinated action supports diversity, endurance and adaptation are described across animal evolution. Humans' biobehavioral synchrony matures from maternal attuned behavior in the postpartum to adult‐adult relationships of empathy, perspective‐taking and intimacy, and extends from the mother‐child relationship to other affiliative bonds throughout life, charting a fundamental trajectory in the development of resilience. Findings from three high‐risk cohorts, each tapping a distinct disruption to maternal‐infant bonding (prematurity, maternal depression, and early life stress/trauma), and followed from birth to adolescence/young adulthood, demonstrate how components of the neurobiology of affiliation confer resilience and uniquely shape the social brain.

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Section: The Making Of the Resilient Child: Three Longitudinal High‐rmentioning

confidence: 86%

What is resilience: an affiliative neuroscience approach

2020

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“…Moreover, both pre-and postnatally, maternal trauma and comorbid difficulties such as depression and anxiety are known to disturb maternal caregiving and mother-infant interaction, and subsequent child development (Beebe et al, 2008(Beebe et al, , 2011Bergman, O'Connor, Modi, & Glover, 2007;Feldman, 2007;Steele, Steele, & Croft, 2008;De Wolff & Ijzendoorn, 1997). However, we note that mothers with disturbances such as depression and anxiety may function in heterogeneous ways, with some displaying resilience and even positive outcomes (Priel et al, 2019;Robinson, Hendrix, Krakovsky, Smith, & Brennan, 2019).…”

Section: Mothers and Infants In The Context Of The 9/11 Traumamentioning

confidence: 84%

“…Fetuses, infants, and young children are vulnerable to parental trauma (Coates, Schechter, & First, 2003;Kaitz, Levy, Ebstein, Faraone, & Mankuta, 2009;Masten & Osofsky, 2010;Priel, Djalovski, Zagoory-Sharon, & Feldman, 2019), yet they are often forgotten in a disaster. Van Ee, Kleber, and Mooren (2012), among others, note that maternal trauma can levy a significant risk for child development, but the mechanisms underlying the intergenerational transmission of trauma are not well understood.…”

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Urgent engagement in 9/11 pregnant widows and their infants: Transmission of trauma

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Hoven²,

Kaitz

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The potential effects of maternal trauma on mother–infant interaction remain insufficiently studied empirically. This study examined the effects of the September 11, 2001, trauma on mother–infant interaction in mothers who were pregnant and widowed on 9/11, and their infants aged 4–6 months. Split‐screen videotaped interaction was coded on a one‐second basis for infant gaze, facial affect, and vocal affect; and mother gaze, facial affect, and touch. We examined the temporal dynamics of communication: self‐contingency and interactive contingency of behavior by time‐series methods. We documented heightened maternal and infant efforts at engagement in the 9/11 (vs. control) dyads. Both partners had difficulty tolerating moments of looking away as well as moments of negative behavior patterns. Heightened efforts to maintain a positive visual engagement may be adaptive and a potential source of resilience, but these patterns may also carry risk: working too hard to make it work. A vigilant, hyper‐contingent, high‐arousal engagement was the central mode of the interpersonal transmission of the trauma to these infants, with implications for intervention.

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“…Therefore, it would be worth trying to find the basis of its genetic susceptibility and to test it in relation to the different categories of ASD. The next step could be to look for the genes concerned with the intermodal matching process, using recent data on oxytocin (OCT), in view of the close connection between OCT and early synchronization and between OCT and ASD (Priel, Djalovski, Zagoory‐Sharon, & Feldman, ).…”

Section: What Could Be the Genetic Basis For Intermodal Matching Abilmentioning

confidence: 99%

Commentary: “Autism: a disorder linked with some trouble in intermodal matching? Putting things together a bit further”: a commentary on Falck‐Ytter et al. (2018)

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2019

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Maternal depression impacts child psychopathology across the first decade of life: Oxytocin and synchrony as markers of resilience

Cited by 91 publications

References 80 publications

What is resilience: an affiliative neuroscience approach

What is resilience: an affiliative neuroscience approach

Urgent engagement in 9/11 pregnant widows and their infants: Transmission of trauma

Commentary: “Autism: a disorder linked with some trouble in intermodal matching? Putting things together a bit further”: a commentary on Falck‐Ytter et al. (2018)

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