Salivary oxytocin mediates the association between emotional maltreatment and responses to emotional infant faces.

Childhood emotional maltreatment has been associated with a higher risk for maltreating one's own offspring. In the current study, we explored a possible role of oxytocin in mediating the association between childhood emotional maltreatment and participants' interpretation of infant facial...

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Main Authors: Bhandari, R, Bakermans-Kranenburg, M, van der Veen, R, Parsons, C, Young, K, Grewen, K, Stein, A, Kringelbach, M, van IJzendoorn, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2014