Early morning cortisol response and emotional processing in adults exposed to postnatal depression in infancy.
Emotional processing and cortisol were investigated in non-depressed young adults whose mothers experienced PND. PND-exposed participants (n=11) had higher waking salivary cortisol and slower performance on an emotional categorization task than controls (n=15). This supports the hypothesis that earl...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2011
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