Understanding emotion processing in offspring of mothers with depression – A commentary on Burkhouse and Kujawa (2023)

In the JCPP Annual Research Review, Burkhouse and Kujawa (Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2022) report a systematic review of 64 studies assessing the association between maternal depression and neural and physiological markers of children's emotion processing. This comprehensive review makes a novel contribution to models of transgenerational depression with important implications for future research in this field. In this commentary I reflect more generally on the role of emotion processing in the transmission of depression from parents to children and the clinical implications of neural and physiological studies. Read the full article at doi: 10.1111/jcpp.13734.