cognitive neuroscience
While inside an fMRI scanner, participants listened to audio recordings of remarks from their mothers. Some comments were praising, some were critical, and others were neutral. Jon Chase/Harvard News Office |
A mother’s criticism touches nerve in formerly depressedFormerly depressed women show patterns of brain activity when they are criticized by their mothers that are distinctly different from the patterns shown by never-depressed controls, according to a new study from Harvard University. The participants reported being completely well and fully recovered, yet their neural activity resembled that which has been observed in depressed individuals in other studies. |
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