Investigating the long-term effects of maternal
Research gap analysis derived from 3 psychology papers in our local library.
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Investigating the long-term effects of maternal depressive symptoms and CM on offspring brain development, - Examining the role of other prenatal exposures on offspring brain development, - Studying the potential benefits of assessing traum
Evidence profile
Sourced from the future-work section and abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2005 and 2026, spanning 2 journals. Those papers have been cited 10 times in total.
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Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Maternal depression with and without a history of childhood maltreatment and newborn white matter microstructure (2026) · Psychological Medicine · cited 1× · doi
Investigating the long-term effects of maternal depressive symptoms and CM on offspring brain development, - Examining the role of other prenatal exposures on offspring brain development, - Studying the potential benefits of assessing trauma history and monitoring psychosocial well-being during pregnancy
generalfuture-work sectionKeywords: investigating long-term effects maternal depressive symptoms offspring brain - 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 sectionKeywords: investigating effects ongoing depression maternal sensitivity brain responses - Social Skill in Self-Assertive Strategies of Toddlers With Depressed and Nondepressed Mothers (2005) · The Journal of Genetic Psychology · cited 8× · doi
The chronicity and severity of toddlers' exposure to maternal depression did not account for more pronounced differences in toddlers' skill in self-assertion toward mothers; however, toddlers exposed to more chronic courses of depression demonstrated less skill in their self-assertion toward the examiner.
generalabstractevidence 5/5Keywords: toddlers depression skill self assertion toward chronicity severity exposure maternal account pronounced differences mothers exposed
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