title: Maternal parenting behavior and emotion processing in adolescents-An fMRI study.
abstract: Parenting is an essential factor within a child's development, yet the impact of normative variations of parenting on neural emotion processing has not been studied to date. The present study investigated 83 healthy adolescents using functional magnetic resonance imaging and an emotional face-matching paradigm. The faces paradigm elicited an increased amygdala response towards negative facial expressions (fearful and angry each compared to neutral faces) and a significant activation of fusiform gyrus to all emotions separately (fearful, happy, angry faces) compared to neutral faces. Moreover, we investigated associations between neural responses towards emotional faces and mother's parenting behavior (maternal warmth and support, psychological pressure and control behavior). High maternal warmth and support correlated with lower activation to fearful faces in the amygdala. Maternal supportive rather than control behavior seems to have an impact on neural emotion processing, which could also be the key factor for brain functional abnormalities in maltreated children. These results expand existent findings in maltreated children to healthy populations.
authors.affiliation: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Campus Mitte, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: lydia.romund@charite.de.
authors.forename: Lydia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Romund
authors.affiliation: Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Educational Science and Psychology, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Diana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Raufelder
authors.affiliation: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Campus Mitte, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Flemming
authors.affiliation: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Campus Mitte, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Robert C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Lorenz
authors.affiliation: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Campus Mitte, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pelz
authors.affiliation: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Campus Mitte, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Tobias
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gleich
authors.affiliation: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Campus Mitte, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Heinz
authors.affiliation: Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité Campus Mitte, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Beck
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000679:Amygdala / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D016487:Parenting; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Amygdala; Emotion processing; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Fusiform gyrus; Maternal parenting behavior