Electrocortical reactivity to emotional faces in young children and associations with maternal and paternal depression
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Background: The late positive potential (LPP) is an event‐related potential component that indexes selective attention toward motivationally salient information and is sensitive to emotional stimuli. Few studies have examined the LPP in children. Depression has been associated with reduced reactivity to negative and positive emotional stimuli, including reduced LPPs in response to emotional faces. The current study sought to identify the time course and scalp distribution of the LPP in response to emotional faces in young children and to determine whether reduced reactivity is observed among children at risk for depression. Methods: Electrocortical reactivity to emotional faces was examined in a large sample of young children and as a function of maternal and paternal depression. Results: In the overall sample, emotional faces were associated with increased positivities compared to neutral faces at occipital sites 200–600 ms after stimulus onset and at parietal sites 600–1,000 ms after stimulus onset. Children of mothers with a history of depressive disorders exhibited reduced differentiation in the early occipital LPP for emotional compared to neutral faces. Conclusions: Results suggest that children as young as 6 years exhibit LPPs to emotional faces, and patterns of electrocortical reactivity to emotional stimuli may be associated with vulnerability to depressive disorders.
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High familial risk children (with at least one depressed parent) show a similar blunting in their LPP response to emotional faces.
“High familial risk children (with at least one depressed parent) also show a similar blunting in their LPP response to emotional faces (Kujawa et al., 2012).”
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The Results (Associations of LPP with parental depression) link maternal depression to reduced differentiation between emotional and neutral faces, but only in the earlier, occipitally maximal LPP. They say the effect appears specific to maternal depression, so the claim's broader grouping of children with at least one depressed parent is not supported. (LLM, conf=0.90)
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- Authors
- Kujawa, A., Hajcak, G., Torpey, D., Kim, J., & Klein, D. N.
- Affiliations
- Stony Brook University (US)
- VA San Diego Healthcare System (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2011-09-06
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 207-215
- ISSN
- 0021-9630 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-7610
- PMC
- PMC3522574
- OpenAlex
- W2130037521
- Cited by
- 126
- References
- 49
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- FWCI
- 4.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum
- Stony Brook University
- National Institutes of Health
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH069942)
- National Center for Research Resources (#M01RR10710, M01RR010710)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Face Recognition and Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- late positive potential, emotional facial expressions, event-related potentials, children, maternal depression, paternal depression, depression risk, selective attention, emotional reactivity, depression vulnerability
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Brain Mapping, Child, Depression, Electroencephalography, Emotions, Evoked Potentials, Facial Expression, Fathers, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Mothers, Neuropsychological Tests, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Risk, Biomarkers
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