Maternal mindfulness and anxiety during pregnancy affect infants neural responses to sounds

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 453-460

  van den Heuvel, Marion I ^a   Donkers, Franc C L ^a,b   Winkler, István ^c,d   Otte, Renée A ^a   Van den Bergh, Bea R H ^a,e,f  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^f Flemish Government   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Auditory attention; Cognitive development; Event related potential; Infant; Mindfulness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; MINDFULNESS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; ANXIETY; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MINDFULNESS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PREGNANCY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84924582936     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsu075     Document Type: Article

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