Depressed mothers' newborns show longer habituation and fail to show face/voice preference

Infant Mental Health Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 643-653

  Hernandez Reif, Maria ^a   Field, Tiffany ^a   Diego, Miguel ^a   Largie, Shay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FACE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NEWBORN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL SYSTEM; VOICE;

EID: 1942543044     PISSN: 01639641     EISSN: 10970355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/imhj.10037     Document Type: Article

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