BACKGROUND Maternal depression can influence the early activity of a mother reading stories to a young child, as depressed mothers are less likely to read to their children. Here, maternal depression association to neurobiological circuitry of narrative comprehension, visualization, and executive functions during stories listening was examined in 21 4-year-old girls and their mothers. Maternal depression scores were collected from the mothers, and functional MRI during stories listening was collected from the children. RESULTS Increased maternal depression was related to decreased functional connectivity between visualization and auditory regions and increased connectivity between the right visual cortex and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in the children. CONCLUSIONS This study highlights the need to monitor maternal depression and provide interventions to ensure positive linguistic outcomes in children.

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产妇抑郁与学龄前儿童听故事期间与视觉、听觉和认知处理相关的神经回路之间的功能连接改变有关。

背景技术母亲抑郁会影响母亲给幼儿读故事的早期活动，因为抑郁的母亲不太可能给孩子读书。在这里，在 21 名 4 岁女孩和她们的母亲中，研究了母亲抑郁症与听故事期间叙事理解、形象化和执行功能的神经生物学回路的关联。从母亲那里收集母亲的抑郁评分，从孩子那里收集听故事过程中的功能 MRI。结果 母亲抑郁增加与视觉和听觉区域之间的功能连通性降低以及儿童右侧视觉皮层和背外侧前额叶皮层之间的连通性增加有关。