The relation of general socio-emotional processing to parenting specific behavior: A study of mothers with and without posttraumatic stress disorder

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue OCT, 2015, Pages

  Moser, Dominik A ^a,b   Aue, Tatjana ^c   Suardi, Francesca ^a,b   Manini, Aurélia ^b   Rossignol, Ana Sancho ^b   Cordero, Maria I ^b,d   Merminod, Gaëlle ^b   Ansermet, François ^a,b   Serpa, Sandra Rusconi ^a,b   Favez, Nicolas ^a   Schechter, Daniel S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

fMRI; Maternal sensitivity; Parenting; PTSD; Socio emotional information processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947246439     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01575     Document Type: Article

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