… This report coordinates assessments of five types of … from two previously divergent approaches
to understanding this … whole-brain images per mother, including two dummy scans at the …

… of child oxytocin [23,24,25], whereas intrusive parenting has … , we approach this question
from a two-brain perspective. We … specific to biological mothers and future studies with fathers, …

… “Secure” mothers coordinate well between the two types of … to correlate oxytocin and
testosterone levels in fatherhood, … contact, decreases partner approach latency and increases food …

… about the parental brain comes from studies with mothers, … , we also assessed the mother’s
perspective on the father’s … We did so by employing a multi-method approach focussing on …

… parenting to his or her own offspring, and possibly to unrelated others. We postulate that
compassionate parenting … ),(2) parental emotions that are coherent and connected with child’s …

… Another study showed that paternal oxytocin levels increased within the first 6 months of …
In synchronous mothers who displayed sensitive caregiving behaviors such as coordination of …

… Twenty-nine mothers underwent two functional magnetic … /approach for cries only) before
each of the two scans were submitted to … Adult attachment predicts maternal brain and oxytocin …

… , mother-child interactions were coded for maternal sensitivity and affect synchrony and salivary
oxytocin levels were assessed … between attachment and non-attachment stimuli. Second, …

… approach. The results from the summarized studies further suggest a mediatory role of oxytocin
between ToM and certain parental … both mothers and fathers is associated with oxytocin …

… Considering a gender-based approach, this chapter … Over time, therefore, the importance
of mother and father in different … Giving intranasal oxytocin to the father appears to increase …