Dept. of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, Division of Population Behavioral Health, 760 Westwood Plaza, A8-153, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Dept. of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 760 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Biol Psychol. 2021 Nov;166:108200. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.108200. Epub 2021 Oct 13.
Most interventions for childhood mental health problems require significant parental involvement, and treatment programs are increasingly incorporating components aimed at enhancing parents' own self-regulation in the context of potentially stressful parent-child interactions. This paper discusses the promise of EEG in examining the rapidly unfolding perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and regulatory processes that occur in parenting, in hopes of ultimately informing child and family interventions. First, we review two separate bodies of work that have used EEG with parents: one examining event-related potential (ERP) measures, and the other examining frontal alpha asymmetry (FAA). We discuss benefits of each within the study of parenting, and also suggest other EEG metrics (such as event-related time-frequency analyses) that can be leveraged to fill current gaps in our knowledge. Finally, we discuss the potential for these findings to inform clinical work with children and families, such as identifying biomarkers that could aid in assessment, treatment recommendations, and monitoring response to interventions.
大多数儿童心理健康问题的干预措施都需要家长的大量参与，并且治疗方案越来越多地纳入旨在增强父母在潜在压力亲子互动背景下自我调节能力的内容。本文讨论了 EEG 在检查育儿过程中迅速展开的感知、认知、情感和调节过程中的应用前景，希望最终能为儿童和家庭干预提供信息。首先，我们回顾了两项使用 EEG 研究父母的研究：一项研究检查了事件相关电位（ERP）测量，另一项研究检查了额 alpha 不对称（FAA）。我们讨论了每种方法在育儿研究中的优势，并提出了其他可以利用的 EEG 指标（如事件相关时频分析）来填补我们知识中的空白。最后，我们讨论了这些发现为儿童和家庭的临床工作提供信息的潜力，例如确定生物标志物，以帮助评估、治疗建议和监测干预反应。
