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The neuroendocrinology of primate maternal behavior [PDF]
In nonhuman primates and humans, similar to other mammals, hormones are not strictly necessary for the expression of maternal behavior, but nevertheless influence variation in maternal responsiveness and parental behavior both within and between individuals. A growing number of correlational and experimental studies have indicated that high circulating
Wendy, Saltzman, Dario, Maestripieri
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Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) are complex conditions characterized by heterogeneous clinical profiles and symptoms that arise in infancy and childhood.
Kathryn M. Harper +5 more
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Social Network Plasticity of Mice Parental Behavior
Neural plasticity occurs during developmental stages and is essential for sexual differentiation of the brain and the ensuing sex-dependent behavioral changes in adults.
Chitose Orikasa
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Cholecystokinin Modulation of Maternal Behavior. [PDF]
behavior is regulated by several neurotransmitters, neuropeptides, and hormones. This mini-review focuses on the role of cholecystokinin (CCK), a neuropeptide and gut hormone best known as a satiety signal, in mediating maternal behavior. In addition to the role of CCK in the infant in mother-infant interactions, maternal CCK appears to also be ...
Luciano Freitas Felicio +3 more
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Characterizing the Brain Structural Adaptations Across the Motherhood Transition
Women that become mothers face notable physiological adaptations during this life-period. Neuroimaging studies of the last decade have provided grounded evidence that women's brains structurally change across the transition into motherhood.
Magdalena Martínez-García +11 more
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Diary reports of concerns in mothers of infant siblings of children with autism across the first year of life [PDF]
We examined the home-based concerns reported by mothers of infant siblings of children with autism across the first year of life. At all three ages measured, mothers of high-risk infants were significantly more likely than mothers of low-risk infants to ...
Nelson, Charles A. +2 more
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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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Energy Supplementation during the Last Third of Gestation Improves Mother–Young Bonding in Goats
We tested whether maternal energy supplementation during the last third of gestation improves birth weight, neonatal wellbeing, and mother–young bonding.
Juan M. Vázquez-García +5 more
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The longitudinal development of emotion regulation capacities in children at risk for externalizing disorders [PDF]
The development of emotional regulation capacities in children at high versus low risk for externalizing disorder was examined in a longitudinal study investigating: a) whether disturbances in emotion regulation precede and predict the emergence of ...
Ainsworth +33 more
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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
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