Investigating the effects of ongoing depression on maternal sensitivity and brain responses

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Sourced from the future-work section and discussion and stated research gap of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2025 and 2026, spanning 2 journals. Those papers have been cited 3 times in total.

Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps

• Maladaptive mother–child interactions in mothers with remitted major depression are associated with blunted amygdala responses to child affective facial expressions (2025) · Psychological Medicine · cited 1× · doi

  Investigating the effects of ongoing depression on maternal sensitivity and brain responses, - Examining the relationship between maternal sensitivity and child outcomes in mothers with a history of depression, - Developing interventions to improve maternal sensitivity and brain responses in mothers with a history of depression

  generalfuture-work sectionevidence 5/5
  Keywords: investigating effects ongoing depression maternal sensitivity brain responses
• Maternal depression during the perinatal period and its relationship with emotion regulation in young adulthood: An fMRI study in a prenatal birth cohort (2025) · Psychological Medicine · cited 2× · doi

  Our findings are limited by the design of the current study and do not allow us to make any conclusions about the relationship between maternal depression occurring before or after these 4 sen- sitive periods and emotion regulation skills in the offspring or about the relationship between emotion regulation skills in the mother and the young adult offspring.

  generaldiscussionevidence 5/5
  Keywords: relationship emotion regulation skills offspring limited design current allow make conclusions maternal depression occurring sitive
• Maternal anxiety or depression and cognitive ability in young male offspring: A population-based cohort study using cognitive test scores from the Danish Conscription Board Examination (2026) · Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology · doi

  The timing of maternal emotional disorders is considered important, but it is unclear at what time they exert the greatest influence on offspring cognitive ability. There is a need to investigate the association between the timing of incident maternal emotional disorders and male offspring's cognitive ability. The study aims to address this gap by examining the association between maternal emotional disorders before, during, or after pregnancy and offspring cognitive ability.

  generalstated research gapevidence 5/5
  Keywords: timing maternal emotional disorders considered important unclear time

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