Maternal Neural Reactivity During Pregnancy Predicts Infant Temperament. Academic Article

abstract

• Maternal biological systems impact infant temperament as early as the prenatal period, though the mechanisms of this association are unknown. Using a prospective, longitudinal design, we found that maternal (N = 89) amplitudes of the late positive potential (LPP) in response to negative stimuli during the second, but not the third, trimester of pregnancy predicted observed and physiological indices of temperamental reactivity in infants at age 4 months. Maternal LPP was positively associated with observed infant fear and negatively associated with frontal EEG asymmetry and cortisol reactivity in infants at age 4 months. Results identify a putative mechanism, early in pregnancy, for the intergenerational transmission of emotional reactivity from mother to infant.

authors

• Brooker, Rebecca

published proceedings

• Infancy

altmetric score

• 6.3

author list (cited authors)

• Brooker, R. J., Kiel, E. J., MacNamara, A., Nyman, T., John-Henderson, N. A., Schmidt, L. A., & Van Lieshout, R. J.

citation count

• 9

complete list of authors

• Brooker, Rebecca J||Kiel, Elizabeth J||MacNamara, Annmarie||Nyman, Tristin||John-Henderson, Neha A||Schmidt, Louis A||Van Lieshout, Ryan J

publication date

• January 2020

publisher

• Wiley  Publisher

keywords

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Electroencephalography
• Emotional Reactivity
• Emotions
• Evoked Potentials
• Female
• Gestational Age
• Humans
• Hydrocortisone
• Infancy
• Infant
• Infant Behavior
• Lpp
• Maternal-fetal Relations
• Mother-Child Relations
• Mothers
• Pregnancy
• Pregnancy Complications
• Prospective Studies
• Surveys And Questionnaires
• Temperament

PubMed Central ID

• 32587482

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1111/infa.12316

start page

• 46

end page

• 66

volume

• 25

issue

• 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/infa.12316

user-defined tag

• 3 Good Health and Well-Being