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ERIC Number: EJ447648
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1992
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
Frontal Lobe Activity and Affective Behavior of Infants of Mothers with Depressive Symptoms.
Dawson, Geraldine; And Others
Child Development, v63 n3 p725-37 Jun 1992
In comparison to infants of mothers who had no symptoms of depression, infants of mothers with symptoms exhibited reduced left frontal lobe activity during play and failed to exhibit increased right frontal lobe activity during distress. Infants of symptomatic mothers showed less distress during maternal separation than infants of nonsymptomatic mothers. (BC)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Depression (Psychology), Electroencephalography, Emotional Response, Infants, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Play
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Emotional Distress; Frontal Lobe; Parent Child Separation; Parietal Lobe