Understanding emotion processing in offspring of mothers with depression – A commentary on Burkhouse and Kujawa (2023)

Platt, Belinda (2023): Understanding emotion processing in offspring of mothers with depression – A commentary on Burkhouse and Kujawa (2023). In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Vol. 64, No. 4: pp. 608-610

Abstract

In the JCPP Annual Research Review, Burkhouse and Kujawa (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2022) report a systematic review of 64 studies assessing the association between maternal depression and neural and physiological markers of children's emotion processing. This comprehensive review makes a novel contribution to models of transgenerational depression with important implications for future research in this field. In this commentary I reflect more generally on the role of emotion processing in the transmission of depression from parents to children and the clinical implications of neural and physiological studies.

• Item Type: Journal article
• Faculties: Medicine > Medical Center of the University of Munich > Clinic and Polyclinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy
• Subjects: 600 Technology > 610 Medicine and health
• ISSN: 0021-9630
• Language: English