Patterns of attentional bias in antenatal depression: an eye-tracking study
IntroductionOne of the most common mental disorders in the perinatal period is depression, which is associated with impaired emotional functioning due to alterations in different cognitive aspects including thought and facial emotion recognition. These functional impairment may affect emerging mater...
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| author | Yao Xu Peiwen Zheng Wenqian Feng Lipeng Chen Shiyu Sun Jie Liu Weina Tang Ciqing Bao Ling Xu Dongwu Xu Ke Zhao Ke Zhao |
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| description | IntroductionOne of the most common mental disorders in the perinatal period is depression, which is associated with impaired emotional functioning due to alterations in different cognitive aspects including thought and facial emotion recognition. These functional impairment may affect emerging maternal sensitivity and have lasting consequences for the dyadic relationship. The current study aimed to investigate the impact of depressive symptoms on the attention bias of infant stimuli during pregnancy.MethodsEighty-six pregnant women completed the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and an eye-tracking task comprising infant-related emotion images. All participants showed biased attention to infant-related images.ResultsFirst, compared to healthy pregnant women, pregnant women with depression symptoms initially directed their attention to infant-related stimuli more quickly (F (1, 84) = 6.175, p = 0.015, η2 = 0.068). Second, the two groups of pregnant women paid attention to the positive infant stimuli faster than the neutral infant stimuli, and the first fixation latency bias score was significantly smaller than that of the infant-related negative stimulus (p = 0.007). Third, compared with the neutral stimulus, the non-depression group showed a longer first gaze duration to the negative stimulus of infants (p = 0.019), while the depressive symptoms group did not show this difference.ConclusionWe speculate that structural and functional changes in affective motivation and cognitive-attention brain areas may induce these attentional bias patterns. These results provide suggestions for the implementation of clinical intervention programs to correct the attention bias of antenatal depressed women. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7cab00d55a1e46c3b004d2ff2099bd5d2023-12-05T10:46:48ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience1662-51532023-12-011710.3389/fnbeh.2023.12886161288616Patterns of attentional bias in antenatal depression: an eye-tracking studyYao Xu0Peiwen Zheng1Wenqian Feng2Lipeng Chen3Shiyu Sun4Jie Liu5Weina Tang6Ciqing Bao7Ling Xu8Dongwu Xu9Ke Zhao10Ke Zhao11School of Mental Health, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, ChinaSchool of Mental Health, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, ChinaSichuan Provincial Center for Mental Health, Sichuan Academy of Medical Science and Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu, ChinaSchool of Mental Health, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, ChinaSchool of Mental Health, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, ChinaSchool of Mental Health, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, ChinaShaoxing 7th People’s Hospital, Shaoxing, ChinaWenzhou Seventh People’s Hospital, Wenzhou, ChinaWenzhou Seventh People’s Hospital, Wenzhou, ChinaSchool of Mental Health, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, ChinaLishui Second People’s Hospital Affiliated to Wenzhou Medical University, Lishui, ChinaThe Affiliated Kangning Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University Zhejiang Provincial Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorder, Wenzhou, ChinaIntroductionOne of the most common mental disorders in the perinatal period is depression, which is associated with impaired emotional functioning due to alterations in different cognitive aspects including thought and facial emotion recognition. These functional impairment may affect emerging maternal sensitivity and have lasting consequences for the dyadic relationship. The current study aimed to investigate the impact of depressive symptoms on the attention bias of infant stimuli during pregnancy.MethodsEighty-six pregnant women completed the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and an eye-tracking task comprising infant-related emotion images. All participants showed biased attention to infant-related images.ResultsFirst, compared to healthy pregnant women, pregnant women with depression symptoms initially directed their attention to infant-related stimuli more quickly (F (1, 84) = 6.175, p = 0.015, η2 = 0.068). Second, the two groups of pregnant women paid attention to the positive infant stimuli faster than the neutral infant stimuli, and the first fixation latency bias score was significantly smaller than that of the infant-related negative stimulus (p = 0.007). Third, compared with the neutral stimulus, the non-depression group showed a longer first gaze duration to the negative stimulus of infants (p = 0.019), while the depressive symptoms group did not show this difference.ConclusionWe speculate that structural and functional changes in affective motivation and cognitive-attention brain areas may induce these attentional bias patterns. These results provide suggestions for the implementation of clinical intervention programs to correct the attention bias of antenatal depressed women.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1288616/fullantenatal depressionattentional biaseye trackingpregnancyemotional pictures |
| spellingShingle | Yao Xu Peiwen Zheng Wenqian Feng Lipeng Chen Shiyu Sun Jie Liu Weina Tang Ciqing Bao Ling Xu Dongwu Xu Ke Zhao Ke Zhao Patterns of attentional bias in antenatal depression: an eye-tracking study Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience antenatal depression attentional bias eye tracking pregnancy emotional pictures |
| title | Patterns of attentional bias in antenatal depression: an eye-tracking study |
| title_full | Patterns of attentional bias in antenatal depression: an eye-tracking study |
| title_fullStr | Patterns of attentional bias in antenatal depression: an eye-tracking study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Patterns of attentional bias in antenatal depression: an eye-tracking study |
| title_short | Patterns of attentional bias in antenatal depression: an eye-tracking study |
| title_sort | patterns of attentional bias in antenatal depression an eye tracking study |
| topic | antenatal depression attentional bias eye tracking pregnancy emotional pictures |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2023.1288616/full |
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