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Dissociating maternal responses to sad and happy facial expressions of their own child: An fMRI study

BACKGROUND: Maternal sensitive behavior depends on recognizing one’s own child’s affective states. The present study investigated distinct and overlapping neural responses of mothers to sad and happy facial expressions of their own child (in comparison to facial expressions of an unfamiliar child)....

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Autores principales: Kluczniok, Dorothea, Hindi Attar, Catherine, Stein, Jenny, Poppinga, Sina, Fydrich, Thomas, Jaite, Charlotte, Kappel, Viola, Brunner, Romuald, Herpertz, Sabine C., Boedeker, Katja, Bermpohl, Felix
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5555664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28806742
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182476
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author Kluczniok, Dorothea
Hindi Attar, Catherine
Stein, Jenny
Poppinga, Sina
Fydrich, Thomas
Jaite, Charlotte
Kappel, Viola
Brunner, Romuald
Herpertz, Sabine C.
Boedeker, Katja
Bermpohl, Felix
author_facet Kluczniok, Dorothea
Hindi Attar, Catherine
Stein, Jenny
Poppinga, Sina
Fydrich, Thomas
Jaite, Charlotte
Kappel, Viola
Brunner, Romuald
Herpertz, Sabine C.
Boedeker, Katja
Bermpohl, Felix
author_sort Kluczniok, Dorothea
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description BACKGROUND: Maternal sensitive behavior depends on recognizing one’s own child’s affective states. The present study investigated distinct and overlapping neural responses of mothers to sad and happy facial expressions of their own child (in comparison to facial expressions of an unfamiliar child). METHODS: We used functional MRI to measure dissociable and overlapping activation patterns in 27 healthy mothers in response to happy, neutral and sad facial expressions of their own school-aged child and a gender- and age-matched unfamiliar child. To investigate differential activation to sad compared to happy faces of one’s own child, we used interaction contrasts. During the scan, mothers had to indicate the affect of the presented face. After scanning, they were asked to rate the perceived emotional arousal and valence levels for each face using a 7-point Likert-scale (adapted SAM version). RESULTS: While viewing their own child’s sad faces, mothers showed activation in the amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex whereas happy facial expressions of the own child elicited activation in the hippocampus. Conjoint activation in response to one’s own child happy and sad expressions was found in the insula and the superior temporal gyrus. CONCLUSIONS: Maternal brain activations differed depending on the child’s affective state. Sad faces of the own child activated areas commonly associated with a threat detection network, whereas happy faces activated reward related brain areas. Overlapping activation was found in empathy related networks. These distinct neural activation patterns might facilitate sensitive maternal behavior.
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spelling pubmed-55556642017-08-28 Dissociating maternal responses to sad and happy facial expressions of their own child: An fMRI study Kluczniok, Dorothea Hindi Attar, Catherine Stein, Jenny Poppinga, Sina Fydrich, Thomas Jaite, Charlotte Kappel, Viola Brunner, Romuald Herpertz, Sabine C. Boedeker, Katja Bermpohl, Felix PLoS One Research Article BACKGROUND: Maternal sensitive behavior depends on recognizing one’s own child’s affective states. The present study investigated distinct and overlapping neural responses of mothers to sad and happy facial expressions of their own child (in comparison to facial expressions of an unfamiliar child). METHODS: We used functional MRI to measure dissociable and overlapping activation patterns in 27 healthy mothers in response to happy, neutral and sad facial expressions of their own school-aged child and a gender- and age-matched unfamiliar child. To investigate differential activation to sad compared to happy faces of one’s own child, we used interaction contrasts. During the scan, mothers had to indicate the affect of the presented face. After scanning, they were asked to rate the perceived emotional arousal and valence levels for each face using a 7-point Likert-scale (adapted SAM version). RESULTS: While viewing their own child’s sad faces, mothers showed activation in the amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex whereas happy facial expressions of the own child elicited activation in the hippocampus. Conjoint activation in response to one’s own child happy and sad expressions was found in the insula and the superior temporal gyrus. CONCLUSIONS: Maternal brain activations differed depending on the child’s affective state. Sad faces of the own child activated areas commonly associated with a threat detection network, whereas happy faces activated reward related brain areas. Overlapping activation was found in empathy related networks. These distinct neural activation patterns might facilitate sensitive maternal behavior. Public Library of Science 2017-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5555664/ /pubmed/28806742 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182476 Text en © 2017 Kluczniok et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kluczniok, Dorothea
Hindi Attar, Catherine
Stein, Jenny
Poppinga, Sina
Fydrich, Thomas
Jaite, Charlotte
Kappel, Viola
Brunner, Romuald
Herpertz, Sabine C.
Boedeker, Katja
Bermpohl, Felix
Dissociating maternal responses to sad and happy facial expressions of their own child: An fMRI study
title Dissociating maternal responses to sad and happy facial expressions of their own child: An fMRI study
title_full Dissociating maternal responses to sad and happy facial expressions of their own child: An fMRI study
title_fullStr Dissociating maternal responses to sad and happy facial expressions of their own child: An fMRI study
title_full_unstemmed Dissociating maternal responses to sad and happy facial expressions of their own child: An fMRI study
title_short Dissociating maternal responses to sad and happy facial expressions of their own child: An fMRI study
title_sort dissociating maternal responses to sad and happy facial expressions of their own child: an fmri study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5555664/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28806742
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0182476
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