Exposure to own infant’s cry, to other infants’ cry, and to control sound. In depressed mothers no activation for own infant versus control plus activation in caudate, accumbens, and medial thalamic. In less depressed mothers act in L orbitofrontal, dorsal anterior cingular cortex, and medial superior frontal. Only in nondepressed mothers, activation in fusiform gyrus (own versus other infants)
Exposure to own infant’s distress faces: in more depressed mothers, activation of dorsal anterior cingulate cortex. Exposure to own infant’s joy faces: in depressed mothers, orbitofrontal and insular activity. Exposure to joy-distress faces reduced L prefrontal and insular striatal act
activity consistency in cingulate cortex and frontal and parietal lobe activity consistency in temporal and frontal lobe (regional homogeneity (ReHo) analysis)
