Journal
INFANT BEHAVIOR & DEVELOPMENT
Volume 32, Issue 3, Pages 298-304Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2009.04.004
Keywords
EEG activity; Inhibited behaviors; Maternal depression and anxiety
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- NIMH NIH HHS [MH00331, MH61888, MH46586] Funding Source: Medline
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Recent studies have shown associations between maternal psychopathology and inhibited behaviors in infants. Moreover, physiological factors have been identified as affecting the continuity of behavioral inhibition across childhood. The purpose of the present study was to examine electroencephalogram (EEG) activity and inhibited behavior in 12-month-old infants of depressed versus non-depressed and mothers. Repeated measures MANOVAs indicated that the infants of mothers with stable psychopathology had greater relative right frontal EEG asymmetry, a pattern that typically accompanies greater negative affect and greater withdrawal behaviors. Infants of affectively ill mothers also showed more proximal behaviors toward a stranger and a novel toy than infants of well mothers, but fewer non-proximal behaviors toward their mothers. These results are discussed within a framework of behavioral inhibition for infants exposed to early psychopathologies in their mothers. (c) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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