Chronic trauma impairs the neural basis of empathy in mothers: Relations to parenting and children’s empathic abilities

Early life stress carries long-term negative consequences for children's well-being and maturation of the social brain. Here, we utilize a unique cohort to test its effects on mothers' social brain, targeting mothers' neural empathic response in relation to caregiving and child empath...

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Main Authors: Jonathan Levy, Karen Yirmiya, Abraham Goldstein, Ruth Feldman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-08-01
Series:Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929318302196