A plausible explanation is that the mother was inappropriately attributing to her child negative and critical emotions expected from others.
Prior studies have examined critical expressed emotion (EE-Crit) in mothers in the intergenerational transmission of depression.
It is possible that diagnostic facial features that are critical for emotion detection [16] are processed automatically and represented more accurately in the left hemisphere, but that the integration of information required for behavioral discrimination is performed in the right hemisphere.
The above results fit our proposed framework: holding a baby on the left exposes the mother's face in the upper right visual field, the quadrant entrusted by evolution to be critical for emotion separation, likely through preserving ipsilateral connection to the right amygdale.
The connectivity between the amygdala and the feedback circuit critical for emotion regulation is in turn shaped by variation in serotonin signaling (e.g., Pezawas et al. 2005).
This region is not critical for emotion processing and regulation, dysfunction of which may underlie the clinical characteristics of BP (Phillips and Swartz, 2014), e.g., mood instability and manic symptoms.
Thus, it is possible that disruption of the right M1 with TMS may have influenced subcortical activity critical for emotion processing, resulting in reduced orienting and impaired visual perception of body expressions, although it should be noted that our data suggest that TMS over right M1 interferes with perception of emotional and non-emotional bodies to a similar extent (Supplementary Table 1).
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