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Children's attentional biases and 5-HTTLPR genotype: potential mechanisms linking mother and child depression.
Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 - 1 May 2009
Gibb Brandon E, Benas Jessica S, Grassia Marie, McGeary John
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In this study, we examined the roles of specific cognitive (attentional bias) and genetic (5-HTTLPR) risk factors in the intergenerational transmission of depression. Focusing first on the link between maternal history of major depressive disorder (MDD) and children's attentional biases, we found that children of mothers with a history of MDD during their children's lives, compared to children of mothers with no...
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