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ADSA Foundation Scholar Award: What makes for a good life for transition dairy cows? Current research and future directions

open access: yesJournal of Dairy Science, 2023
: Dairy cows experience several challenges during the transition period, historically defined as the 3 wk before to 3 wk after calving. During this 6-wk window, cows undergo a series of social, nutritional, and physical changes that affect their quality ...
K.L. Proudfoot
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Maternal scaffolding behavior: links with parenting style and maternal education

open access: yes, 2012
The purpose of this study was to specify the relationship between positive and harsh parenting and maternal scaffolding behavior. A 2nd aim was to disentangle the effects of maternal education and parenting quality, and a 3rd aim was to test whether ...
Carr, A.   +5 more
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Maternal attachment, peer relationship and behavior problems among primary school children

open access: yes, 2022
Behavior problems that occur during childhood often persist into adolescence and they can also lead to various negative outcomes. Since mothers and peers play a significant role in developing children’s behavior, this study aimed to determine the ...
Ismail, Nellie, Afandi, Aqilah Abu Hasan
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Freezing suppression by oxytocin in central amygdala allows alternate defensive behaviours and mother-pup interactions

open access: yeseLife, 2017
When animals and their offspring are threatened, parents switch from self-defense to offspring protection. How self-defense is suppressed remains elusive. We postulated that suppression of the self-defense response, freezing, is gated via oxytocin acting
Elizabeth Rickenbacher   +3 more
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Brief and long maternal separation in C57Bl6J mice: behavioral consequences for the dam and the offspring

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023
IntroductionAnimal models, especially rodents, have become instrumental to experimentally investigate the effects of an adverse post-natal environment on the developing brain.
Cynthia Rombaut   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding the Loss of Maternal Care in Avian Brood Parasites Using Preoptic Area Transcriptome Comparisons in Brood Parasitic and Non-parasitic Blackbirds

open access: yesG3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2019
Parental care is critical for offspring survival in many species. However, parental behaviors have been lost in roughly 1% of avian species known as the obligate brood parasites.
Kathleen S. Lynch   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Charcoal Burning and Maternal Filicide-Suicide Trends in Taiwan: The Impact of Accessibility of Lethal Methods

open access: yesJournal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2008
Charcoal burning has emerged as a novel suicide method in Taiwan and its impact on maternal filicide-suicide (MFS) remains unexplored. Using official national mortality data and reports of MFS cases from electronic newspaper archives, the authors aimed ...
Yi-Ju Pan, Ming-Been Lee
doaj   +1 more source

Influence of High Energy Diet and Polygenic Predisposition for Obesity on Postpartum Health in Rat Dams

open access: yesFrontiers in Physiology, 2022
It is estimated that 30% of pregnant women worldwide are overweight or obese, leading to adverse health effects for both mother and child. Women with obesity during pregnancy are at higher risk for developing both metabolic and mental disorders, such as ...
Andrea S. Leuthardt   +3 more
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Neural control of maternal and paternal behaviors [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2014
Parental care, including feeding and protection of young, is essential for the survival as well as mental and physical well-being of the offspring. A large variety of parental behaviors has been described across species and sexes, raising fascinating questions about how animals identify the young and how brain circuits drive and modulate parental ...
Dulac, Catherine   +2 more
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Influences of maternal care on chicken welfare [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This review was funded by a BBSRC Future Leader Fellowship to Joanne Edgar.In domestic chickens, the provision of maternal care strongly influences the behavioural development of chicks.
Suzanne Held   +8 more
core   +1 more source

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