The adaptive human parental brain: implications for children's social development

Highlights • The parental caregiving network integrates core limbic with cortical sociocognitive networks. • Human parental brain is characterized by plasticity, uniquely expressed in mothers and fathers. • Nodes of the parental brain are related to mothers’ and fathers’ hormones and interactive beh...

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Published inTrends in neurosciences (Regular ed.) Vol. 38; no. 6; pp. 387 - 399
Main Author Feldman, Ruth
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 01.06.2015
Elsevier Sequoia S.A
Subjects
Animals
Brain
Brain - physiology
caregiving
Comparative analysis
Family Relations
fathering
Hormones
Humans
Intergenerational relationships
mothering
Neurobiology
Neurology
Neuronal Plasticity - physiology
oxytocin
parental brain
Parents
Social Behavior
synchrony
oxytocin
mothering
fathering
caregiving
synchrony
parental brain
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Summary:Highlights • The parental caregiving network integrates core limbic with cortical sociocognitive networks. • Human parental brain is characterized by plasticity, uniquely expressed in mothers and fathers. • Nodes of the parental brain are related to mothers’ and fathers’ hormones and interactive behavior. • Links of parents’ brain with oxytocin and synchrony support long-term effect on infant social growth.
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ISSN:0166-2236
1878-108X
DOI:10.1016/j.tins.2015.04.004