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Peer reviewedDawson, Geraldine; Frey, Karin; Panagiotides, Heracles; Yamada, Emily; Hessl, David; Osterling, Julie – Child Development, 1999
Examined whether the atypical pattern of brain activity found in infants of depressed mothers generalized to situations not involving the mother. Found that 13- to 15-month-olds of depressed mothers exhibited reduced left--relative to right--frontal activity during baseline and during interactions with mother and familiar experimenter. This…
Descriptors: Brain, Depression (Psychology), Electroencephalography, Generalization
