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While inside an fMRI scanner, participants listened to audio recordings of remarks from their mothers. Some comments were praising, some were critical, and others were neutral.

Jon Chase/Harvard News Office

A mother’s criticism touches nerve in formerly depressed

Formerly depressed women show patterns of brain activity when they are criticized by their mothers that are distinctly different from the patterns shown by never-depressed controls, according to a new study from Harvard University.

The participants reported being completely well and fully recovered, yet their neural activity resembled that which has been observed in depressed individuals in other studies. 

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