@article{MeiserZietlowRecketal.2015,
  author    = {Meiser, Susanne and Zietlow, Anna-Lena and Reck, Corinna and Tr{\"a}uble, Birgit},
  title     = {The impact of postpartum depression and anxiety disorders on children's processing of facial emotional expressions at pre-school age},
  series = {ARCHIVES OF WOMENS MENTAL HEALTH},
  volume    = {18},
  journal   = {ARCHIVES OF WOMENS MENTAL HEALTH},
  number    = {5},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {Wien},
  issn      = {1434-1816},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00737-015-0519-y},
  pages     = {707 -- 716},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {To enhance understanding of impaired socio-emotional development in children of postpartum depressed or anxious mothers, this longitudinal study addressed the question of whether maternal postpartum depression and anxiety disorders result in deficits in children's processing of facial emotional expressions (FEEs) at pre-school age. Thirty-two mothers who had fulfilled Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV) criteria for postpartum depression and/or anxiety disorder and their pre-school aged children were tested for FEE processing abilities and compared to a healthy control group (n = 29). Child assessments included separate tasks for emotion recognition and emotion labelling. Mothers completed an emotion recognition test as well as the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Axis I Disorders I (SCID-I). Children of postpartum depressed and/or anxious mothers performed significantly worse than control children at labelling, but not at recognizing facial expressions of basic emotions. Emotion labelling at pre-school age was predicted by child age and maternal postpartum mental health, but neither current maternal mental health nor current maternal emotion recognition was associated with child FEE processing. Results point to a specific importance of early social experiences for the development of FEE labelling skills. However, further studies involving sensitive measures of emotion recognition are needed to determine if there might also exist subtle effects on FEE recognition.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SchultebraucksDeuterDuesenbergetal.2016,
  author    = {Schultebraucks, Katharina and Deuter, Christian E. and Duesenberg, Moritz and Schulze, Lars and Hellmann-Regen, Julian and Domke, Antonia and Lockenvitz, Lisa and Kuehl, Linn K. and Otte, Christian and Wingenfeld, Katja},
  title     = {Selective attention to emotional cues and emotion recognition in healthy subjects: the role of mineralocorticoid receptor stimulation},
  series = {Psychopharmacology},
  volume    = {233},
  journal   = {Psychopharmacology},
  publisher = {Springer},
  address   = {New York},
  issn      = {0033-3158},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00213-016-4380-0},
  pages     = {3405 -- 3415},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Selective attention toward emotional cues and emotion recognition of facial expressions are important aspects of social cognition. Stress modulates social cognition through cortisol, which acts on glucocorticoid (GR) and mineralocorticoid receptors (MR) in the brain. We examined the role of MR activation on attentional bias toward emotional cues and on emotion recognition. We included 40 healthy young women and 40 healthy young men (mean age 23.9 +/- 3.3), who either received 0.4 mg of the MR agonist fludrocortisone or placebo. A dot-probe paradigm was used to test for attentional biases toward emotional cues (happy and sad faces). Moreover, we used a facial emotion recognition task to investigate the ability to recognize emotional valence (anger and sadness) from facial expression in four graded categories of emotional intensity (20, 30, 40, and 80 \%). In the emotional dot-probe task, we found a main effect of treatment and a treatment x valence interaction. Post hoc analyses revealed an attentional bias away from sad faces after placebo intake and a shift in selective attention toward sad faces compared to placebo. We found no attentional bias toward happy faces after fludrocortisone or placebo intake. In the facial emotion recognition task, there was no main effect of treatment. MR stimulation seems to be important in modulating quick, automatic emotional processing, i.e., a shift in selective attention toward negative emotional cues. Our results confirm and extend previous findings of MR function. However, we did not find an effect of MR stimulation on emotion recognition.},
  language  = {en}
}