The influence of maternal anxiety and depression symptoms on fNIRS brain responses to emotional faces in 5- and 7-month-old infants

Porto, Juliana Antola; Bick, Johanna; Perdue, Katherine L.; Richards, John E.; Nunes, Magda L.; Nelson, Charles A.

doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101447

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“…Visual experiences, such as affective communication that mothers have with their infants, can aid infants in regulating their actions and attention ( Hornik et al, 1987 ; Tronick, 1989 ). Affective communication can include displays of emotion, and indeed, infants show a sensitivity to emotional faces ( Thompson-Booth et al, 2014 ; Porto et al, 2020 ) and an increase in attentional resources within the environment. In other words, the adaptive nature of the attentional system means that the infants’ immediate context, in particular the emotional content and emotional content provided by the mother, may influence how infants’ views their world (see Figure 1 ).…”

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Infants’ Selective Visual Attention Is Dependent on Maternal Affect and Emotional Context

2021

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Development of selective attention during the first year of life is critical to cognitive and socio-emotional skills. It is also a period that the average child’s interactions with their mother dominate their social environment. This study examined how maternal negative affect and an emotion face prime (mother/stranger) jointly effect selective visual attention. Results from linear mixed-effects modeling showed that 9-month olds (N=70) were faster to find a visual search target after viewing a fearful face (regardless of familiarity) or their mother’s angry face. For mothers with high negative affect, infants’ attention was further impacted by fearful faces, resulting in faster search times. Face emotion interacted with mother’s negative affect, demonstrating a capacity to influence what infants attend in their environment.

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Infants’ Selective Visual Attention Is Dependent on Maternal Affect and Emotional Context

2021

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“…Prenatal maternal depression may better predict offspring’s EEG activity compared to postnatal or concurrent depression ( Goodman et al, 2021 ). Furthermore, Porto et al (2020) , using fNIRS, showed that greater maternal negative affect (assessed postpartum) was associated with greater oxyhemoglobin activation in emotion-related brain region in infants, even if they did not find support for greater right versus left frontal cortex activation in association with maternal negative affect. Lavonius et al (2020) , using the same birth cohort data as we, found the association between higher maternal sleep loss during pregnancy and decreased ERP amplitude for happy sounds in infants.…”

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Auditory Mismatch Responses to Emotional Stimuli in 3-Year-Olds in Relation to Prenatal Maternal Depression Symptoms

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Maternal depression symptoms are common in pregnant women and can have negative effects on offspring’s emotional development. This study investigated the association between prenatal maternal depression symptoms (assessed with the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale at 24 weeks of gestation) and auditory perception of emotional stimuli in 3-year-olds (n = 58) from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study. Using electroencephalography (EEG), we examined mismatch responses for happy, sad, and angry sounds presented among neutral stimuli. A positive association between maternal depression symptoms and the emotional mismatch responses in an early time window (80–120 ms) was found, indicating that brain responses of children of mothers with depressive symptoms were weaker to happy sounds, though the results did not survive Bonferroni correction. There were no clear associations in the sad and angry emotional categories. Our results tentatively support that the 3-year-old children of mothers with depression symptoms may be less sensitive to automatically detect happy sounds compared to children whose mothers do not display symptoms of depression.

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“…A conceptually similar pre-processing approach has been employed, with variations in specific settings, in De Klerk et al (2018) ; McDonald et al (2019) and Porto et al (2020) .…”

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Comparing different pre-processing routines for infant fNIRS data

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2021

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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Highlights Five pre-processing pipelines were compared on synthetic and real infant NIRS data. Strict inclusion criteria limit the number of trials, but recover HRF accurately. Artifact correction retains larger amounts of data, but may lower HRF amplitude. No difference between applying pre-processing to optical density or concentration data.

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The influence of maternal anxiety and depression symptoms on fNIRS brain responses to emotional faces in 5- and 7-month-old infants

Cited by 19 publications

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Infants’ Selective Visual Attention Is Dependent on Maternal Affect and Emotional Context

Infants’ Selective Visual Attention Is Dependent on Maternal Affect and Emotional Context

Auditory Mismatch Responses to Emotional Stimuli in 3-Year-Olds in Relation to Prenatal Maternal Depression Symptoms

Comparing different pre-processing routines for infant fNIRS data

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