Emotional characteristics of infants associated with maternal depression and anxiety.
Infants as young as 3 months are able to detect depression in their mothers. Depressed mothers are sufficiently different from nondepressed mothers in affect and interaction that the social, emotional, and cognitive functioning of their infants are compromised. This article reviews current findings on the effects of maternal depression and psychiatric illness on infants.
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D001008:Anxiety Disorders; D002657:Child Development; D003863:Depression; D003866:Depressive Disorder; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018730:Infant Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009771:Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; D011446:Prospective Studies; D002666:Psychology, Child