Parenting is an essential factor within a child's development, yet the impact of normative
variations of parenting on neural emotion processing has not been studied to date. The
present study investigated 83 healthy adolescents using functional magnetic resonance
imaging and an emotional face-matching paradigm. The faces paradigm elicited an
increased amygdala response towards negative facial expressions (fearful and angry each
compared to neutral faces) and a significant activation of fusiform gyrus to all emotions …