Perceived quality of maternal care in childhood and structure and function of mothers' brain

Developmental Science

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 662-673

  Kim, Pilyoung ^a,b   Leckman, James F ^a   Mayes, Linda C ^a,c   Newman, Michal Ann ^a   Feldman, Ruth ^a,d   Swain, James E ^a,e  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^c ANNA FREUD CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CRYING; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CRYING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955521684     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00923.x     Document Type: Article

References (74)

1. Bartels A, Zeki S. The neural correlates of maternal and romantic love. Neuroimage 2004, 21:1155-1166.
2. Beck A T, Steer R A, Ball R, Ranieri W F. Comparison of Beck Depression Inventories -IA and -II in psychiatric outpatients. Journal of Personality Assessment 1996, 67:588-597.
3. Bell S M, Ainsworth M D. Infant crying and maternal responsiveness. Child Development 1972, 43:1171-1190.
4. Belsky J. The developmental and evolutionary psychology of intergenerational transmission of attachment. Attachment and bonding: A new synthesis 2005, 169-198. Carter C SAhnert LGrossmann K EHrdy S BLamb M EPorges S WSachser N. Eds, Cambridge, MA, MIT Press
5. Belsky J, Jaffee S R, Sligo J, Woodward L, Silva P A. Intergenerational transmission of warm-sensitive-stimulating parenting: a prospective study of mothers and fathers of 3-year-olds. Child Development 2005, 76:384-396.
6. Bowlby J. Attachment 1969, 2nd edn, Vol. 1, New York, Basic Books
7. Bredy T W, Grant R J, Champagne D L, Meaney M J. Maternal care influences neuronal survival in the hippocampus of the rat. European Journal of Neuroscience 2003, 18:2903-2909.
8. Buss C, Lord C, Wadiwalla M, Hellhammer D H, Lupien S J, Meaney M J, Pruessner J C. Maternal care modulates the relationship between prenatal risk and hippocampal volume in women but not in men. Journal of Neuroscience 2007, 27:2592-2595.
9. Chen Z, Kaplan H. The intergenerational transmission of constructive parenting. Journal of Marriage and the Family 2001, 63:17-31.
10. Damsa C, Maris S, Pull C B. New fields of research in posttraumatic stress disorder: brain imaging. Current Opinion in Psychiatry 2005, 18:55-64.
11. Dedovic K, D'Aguiar C, Pruessner J C. What stress does to your brain: a review of neuroimaging studies. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 2009, 54:6-15.
12. Dunn J D, Orr S E. Differential plasma corticosterone responses to hippocampal stimulation. Experimental Brain Research 1984, 54:1-6.
13. Ethofer T, Pourtois G, Wildgruber D. Investigating audiovisual integration of emotional signals in the human brain. Progress in Brain Research 2006, 156:345-361.
14. Feldman R. Mother-infant synchrony and the development of moral orientation in childhood and adolescence: direct and indirect mechanisms of developmental continuity. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 2007a, 77:582-597.
15. Feldman R. Parent-infant synchrony and the construction of shared timing; physiological precursors, developmental outcomes, and risk conditions. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2007b, 48:329-354.
16. Feldman R, Eidelman A I. Parent-infant synchrony and the social-emotional development of triplets. Developmental Psychology 2004, 40(6):1133-1147.
17. Fleming A S, Kraemer G W, Gonzalez A, Lovic V, Rees S, Melo A. Mothering begets mothering: the transmission of behaviour and its neurobiology across generations. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behaviour 2002, 73:61-75.
18. Forman S D, Cohen J D, Fitzgerald M, Eddy W F, Mintun M A, Noll D C. Improved assessment of significant activation in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI): use of a cluster-size threshold. Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 1995, 33:636-647.
19. Francis D, Diorio J, Liu D, Meaney M J. Nongenomic transmission across generations of maternal behaviour and stress responses in the rat. Science 1999, 286:1155-1158.
20. Francis D D, Young L J, Meaney M J, Insel T R. Naturally occurring differences in maternal care are associated with the expression of oxytocin and vasopressin (V1a) receptors: gender differences. Journal of Neuroendocrinology 2002, 14:349-353.
21. Franzen E A, Myers R E. Neural control of social behaviour: prefrontal and anterior temporal cortex. Neuropsychologia 1973, 11:141-157.
22. Fries A B, Ziegler T E, Kurian J R, Jacoris S, Pollak S D. Early experience in humans is associated with changes in neuropeptides critical for regulating social behaviour. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2005, 102:17237-17240.
23. Ganzel B L, Kim P, Glover G H, Temple E. Resilience after 9/11: multimodal neuroimaging evidence for stress-related change in the healthy adult brain. Neuroimage 2008, 40:788-795.
24. Goebel R, Esposito F, Formisano E. Analysis of functional image analysis contest (FIAC) data with brainvoyager QX: from single-subject to cortically aligned group general linear model analysis and self-organizing group independent component analysis. Human Brain Mapping 2006, 27:392-401.
25. Gonzalez A, Jenkins J M, Steiner M, Fleming A S. The relation between early life adversity, cortisol awakening response and diurnal salivary cortisol levels in postpartum women. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2009, 34:76-86.
26. Good C D, Johnsrude I S, Ashnurner J, Henson R N, Friston K J, Frackowiak R S. A voxel-based morphometric study of aging in 465 normal adult human brains. NeuroImage 2001, 14:21-36.
27. Grandjean D, Sander D, Pourtois G, Schwartz S, Seghier M L, Scherer K R, Vuilleumier P. The voices of wrath: brain responses to angry prosody in meaningless speech. Nature Neuroscience 2005, 8:145-146.
28. Hardt J, Rutter M. Validity of adult retrospective reports of adverse childhood experiences: review of the evidence. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2004, 45:260-273.
29. Heim C, Nemeroff C B. Neurobiology of posttraumatic stress disorder. CNS Spectrum 2009, 1(Suppl 1):13-24.
30. Herman J P, Ostrander M M, Mueller N K, Figueiredo H. Limbic system mechanisms of stress regulation: hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical axis. Progress in Neuro-psychopharmacology & Biolological Psychiatry 2005, 29:1201-1213.
31. Iacoboni M, Dapretto M. The mirror neuron system and the consequences of its dysfunction. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2006, 7:942-951.
32. Johnstone T, van Reekum C M, Oakes T R, Davidson R J. The voice of emotion: an FMRI study of neural responses to angry and happy vocal expressions. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience 2006, 1:242-249.
33. Kaffman A, Meaney M J. Neurodevelopmental sequelae of postnatal maternal care in rodents: clinical and research implications of molecular insights. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2007, 48:224-244.
34. Kaufman J, Zigler E. Do abused children become abusive parents? American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 1987, 57:186-192.
35. Kringelbach M L. The human orbitofrontal cortex: linking reward to hedonic experience. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2005, 6:691-702.
36. Leckman J F, Mayes L C, Feldman R, Evans D W, King R A, Cohen D J. Early parental preoccupations and behaviours and their possible relationship to the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 1999, 396:1-26.
37. Lemche E, Giampietro V P, Surguladze S A, Amaro E J, Andrew C M, Williams S C, Gasston D, Joraschky P, David A S, Phillips M L. Human attachment security is mediated by the amygdala: evidence from combined fMRI and psychophysiological measures. Human Brain Mapping 2006, 27:623-635.
38. Lenzi D, Trentini C, Pantano P, Macaluso E, Iacoboni M, Lenzi G L, Ammaniti M. Neural Basis of Maternal Communication and Emotional Expression Processing during Infant Preverbal Stag. Cerebral cortex 2009, 19:1124-1133.
39. Liotti M, Mayberg H S, Brannan S K, McGinnis S, Jerabek P, Fox P T. Differential limbic-cortical correlates of sadness and anxiety in healthy subjects: implications for affective disorders. Biological Psychiatry 2000, 48:30-42.
40. Lorberbaum J P, Newman J D, Horwitz A R, Dubno J R, Lydiard R B, Hamner M B, Bohning D E, George M S. A potential role for thalamocingulate circuitry in human maternal behaviour. Biological Psychiatry 2002, 51:431-445.
41. Lupien S J, McEwen B S, Gunnar M R, Heim C. Effects of stress throughout the lifespan on the brain, behaviour and cognition. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2009, 10:434-445.
42. Maestripieri D, Carroll K A. Child abuse and neglect: usefulness of the animal data. Psychological Bulletin 1998, 123:211-223.
43. Manassis K, Owens M, Adam K S, West M, Sheldon-Keller A E. Assessing attachment convergent validity of the adult attachment interview and the parental bonding instrument. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 1999, 33:559-567.
44. Martorell G A, Bugental D B. Maternal variations in stress reactivity: implications for harsh parenting practices with very young children. Journal of Family Psychology 2006, 20:641-647.
45. Mayes L C, Leckman J F. Parental representation and subclinical changes in postpartum mood. Infant Mental Health Journal 2007, 28:281-295.
46. Meaney M J. Maternal care, gene expression, and the transmission of individual differences in stress reactivity across generations. Annual Review of Neuroscience 2001, 24:1161-1192.
47. Mechelli A, Price C J, Friston K J, Ashburner J. Voxel-based morphometry of the human brain: methods and applications. Current Medical Imaging Reviews 2005, 1:1-9.
48. Miller L, Kramer R, Warner V, Wickramaratne P, Weissman M. Intergenerational transmission of parental bonding among women. Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 1997, 36:1134-1139.
49. Mitchell R L, Elliott R, Barry M, Cruttenden A, Woodruff P W. The neural response to emotional prosody, as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging. Neurospychologia 2003, 41:1410-1412.
50. Neumann I D, Torner L, Wigger A. Brain oxytocin: differential inhibition of neuroendocrine stress responses and anxiety-related behaviour in virgin, pregnant and lactating rats. Neuroscience 2000, 95:567-575.
51. Nitschke J B, Nelson E E, Rusch B D, Fox A S, Oakes T R, Davidson R J. Orbitofrontal cortex tracks positive mood in mothers viewing pictures of their newborn infants. Neuroimage 2004, 21:583-592.
52. Noriuchi M, Kikuchi Y, Senoo A. The functional neuroanatomy of maternal love: mother's response to infant's attachment behaviours. Biological Psychiatry 2004, 63:415-423.
53. Parker G. A parental bonding instrument. British Journal of Medical Psychology 1979, 152:1-10.
54. Parker G. Parental 'affectionless control' as an antecedent to adult depression. A risk factor delineated. Archives of General Psychiatry 1983, 40:950-960.
55. Pfeifer J H, Iacoboni M, Mazziotta J C, Dapretto M. Mirroring others' emotions relates to empathy and interpersonal competence in children. Neuroimage 2008, 39:2076-2085.
56. Ranote S, Elliott R, Abel K M, Mitchell R, Deakin J F, Appleby L. The neural basis of maternal responsiveness to infants: an fMRI study. Neuroreport 2004, 15:1825-1829.
57. Rizzolatti G, Craighero L. The mirror-neuron system. Annual Review of Neuroscience 2004, 27:169-192.
58. Sander D, Grafman J, Zalla T. The human amygdala: an evolved system for relevance detection. Reviews in the Neurosciences 2003, 14:303-316.
59. Sander D, Grandjean D, Pourtois G, Schwartz S, Seghier M L, Scherer K R, Vuilleumier P. Emotion and attention interactions in social cognition: brain regions involved in processing anger prosody. NeuroImage 2005, 28:848-858.
60. Sander K, Frome Y, Scheich H. FMRI activations of amygdala, cingulate cortex, and auditory cortex by infant laughing and crying. Human Brain Mapping 2007, 28:1007-1022.
61. Saxe R. Uniquely human social cognition. Current Opinions in Neurobiology 2006, 16:235-239.
62. Seifritz E, Esposito F, Neuhoff J G, Luthi A, Mustovic H, Dammann G, von Bardeleben U, Radue E W, Cirillo S, Tedeschi G, Di Salle F. Differential sex-independent amygdala response to infant crying and laughing in parents versus nonparents. Biological Psychiatry 2003, 54:1367-1375.
63. Sinha R, Lacadie C, Skudlarski P, Wexler B E. Neural circuits underlying emotional distress in humans. Annuals of New York Academy of Science 2004, 1032:254-257.
64. Spielberger C D, Vagg P R. Psychometric properties of the STAI: a reply to Ramanaiah, Franzen, and Schill. Journal of Personality Assessment 1984, 48:95-97.
65. Swain J E, Leckman J F, Mayes L C, Feldman R, Constable R T, Schultz R T. Neural substrates and psychology of human parent-infant attachment in the postpartum. Biological Psychiatry 2004, 55:153S.
66. Swain J E, Lorberbaum J P, Kose S, Strathearn L. Brain basis of early parent-infant interactions: psychology, physiology, and in vivo functional neuroimaging studies. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2007, 48:262-287.
67. Swain J E, Tasgin E, Mayes L C, Feldman R, Constable R T, Leckman J F. Cesarean delivery affects maternal brain responses to own baby cry. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 2008, 31:729-745.
68. Vermetten E, Schmahl C, Lindner S, Loewenstein R J, Bremmner J D. Hippocampal and amygdalar volumes in dissociative identity disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry 2006, 163:630-636.
69. Völlm B A, Taylor A N, Richardson P, Corcoran R, Stirling J, McKie S, Deakin J F, Elliot R. Neuronal correlates of theory of mind and empathy: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in a nonverbal task. Neuroimage 2005, 29:90-98.
70. Vrticka P, Andersson F, Grandjean D, Sander D, Vuilleumier P. Individual attachment style modulates human amygdala and striatum activation during social appraisal. PLoS ONE 2008, 3:e2868.
71. Vythilingam M, Heim C, Newport J, Miller A H, Anderson E, Bronen R, Brummer M, Staib L, Vermetten E, Charney D S, Nemeroff C B, Bremner J D. Childhood trauma associated with smaller hippocampal volume in women with major depression. American Journal of Psychiatry 2002, 159:2072-2080.
72. Walker C, Deschamps S, Proulx K, Tu M, Salzman C, Woodside B, Lupien S, Gallo-Payet N, Richard D. Mother to infant or infant to mother? Reciprocal regulation of responsiveness to stress in rodents and the implications for humans. Journal of Psychiatry Neuroscience 2004, 29:364-382.
73. Weinfield N S, Sroufe L A, Egeland B. Attachment from infancy to early adulthood in a high-risk sample: continuity, discontinuity, and their correlates. Child Development 2000, 71:695-702.
74. Wilhelm K, Niven H, Parker G, Hadzi-Pavlovic D. The stability of the Parental Bonding Instrument over a 20-year period. Psychological Medicine 2005, 35:387-393.