Sentences with phrase «negative emotional cues»

Animal behavior scientist Jonathan Balcombe discusses new studies that show how cats tune in to their owners for positive and negative emotional cues.

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Mothers who breastfeed have been found to report lower levels of perceived stress and negative mood, higher levels of maternal attachment, and tend to perceive their infants more positively than mothers who formula - feed.9, 19 - 21 There is evidence to suggest that breastfeeding mothers may also spend more time in emotional care and be more sensitive to infant emotional distress cues than bottle - feeding mothers.22, 23 Relatedly, a small fMRI study of 17 mothers in the first postpartum month, found that breastfeeding mothers showed greater activation in brain areas involved in empathy and bonding than formula - feeding mothers when listening to their own infant's cry.24 These brain areas included the superior frontal gyrus, insula, precuneus, striatum and amygdala.

«Graphic warning labels encourage negative emotional reactions to cigarettes and those emotions become associated with smoking cues,» she says.

Exposure to these initial traumatic experiences, the resulting emotional dysregulation, and the loss of safety, direction, and the ability to detect or respond to danger cues may impact a child's development over time and can lead to subsequent or repeated trauma exposure in adolescence and adulthood without supports that might buffer the negative effects.

A recent meta - analysis found a small - to - medium, negative correlation between general internalizing problems, such as anxiety and depression, and children's ability to understand emotional cues (Trentacosta and Fine, 2010).