Adverse caregiving in infancy blunts neural processing of the mother

The roots of psychopathology take shape during adverse parent-infant interactions, shown through infant attachment quality. Using rodents, the authors show that blunted infant cortical processing of the mother determines attachment quality through a stress hormone-dependent mechanism.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Maya Opendak, Emma Theisen, Anna Blomkvist, Kaitlin Hollis, Teresa Lind, Emma Sarro, Johan N. Lundström, Nim Tottenham, Mary Dozier, Donald A. Wilson, Regina M. Sullivan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14801-3