Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 1 · Licensed source edition
Chronic trauma impairs the neural basis of empathy in mothers: Relations to parenting and children’s empathic abilities
Originally published 2019-05-14 · Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Elsevier · DOI 10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100658 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Kindness
How can I acknowledge distress without asking a child to manage mine?
This article addresses maternal responses to others’ pain alongside children’s empathic capacities.
Who was studied?
Mothers and children followed in the context of chronic trauma, including war exposure
Age / stage: 11–13 years at assessment
Read with three questions
- How did the authors investigate maternal responses to others’ pain alongside children’s empathic capacities?
- What behavioral measure accompanies the physiological measure, and how specific is that link?
- What can neural responses to vicarious pain add to the observed measures of caregiving and child empathy?
Keep the limits in view
Brain responses in a war-exposed sample are indirect measures of a specific task. They cannot define an individual mother’s capacity for empathy.
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Jonathan Levy; Karen Yirmiya; Abraham Goldstein; Ruth Feldman (2019). Chronic trauma impairs the neural basis of empathy in mothers: Relations to parenting and children’s empathic abilities Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2019.100658
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