Attentional Biases in Childhood Depression
Attentional Biases in Childhood Depression
Research on how visual attention to emotional faces predicts and is predicted by depressive symptoms in children, with distinctions based on family history.
attentional biases in childhood depressionJun 30, 20266 min
When a Child’s Eyes Get Stuck on Sadness: How Depression Rewires Attention Differently by Family Risk
A groundbreaking longitudinal study reveals that childhood depressive symptoms and attentional biases toward emotional faces reinforce each other in a bidirectional cycle — but the pattern differs dramatically based on whether a child has a maternal history of depression.