As any new parent knows, having a baby provides opportunities for enrichment, learning
and stress–experiences known to change the adult brain. Yet surprisingly little is known …

Parents lay the foundation for their children's socio‐emotional experiences by sensitively
responding to their needs. The hormonal and neurobiological changes that occur during the …

Parental caregiving includes a set of highly conserved set of behaviors and mental states
that may reflect both an individual's genetic endowment and the early experience of being …

Highlights•Parents intuitively enact a range of behaviours that support infant
development.•Intuitive behaviours include altering speech, establishing eye contact and …

In recent decades, human sociocultural changes have increased the numbers of fathers that
are involved in direct caregiving in Western societies. This trend has led to a resurgence of …

An attachment specialist and a clinical psychologist with neurobiology expertise team up to
explore the brain science behind parenting. In this groundbreaking exploration of the brain …

Multiple lines of research indicate that fathers often treat boys and girls differently in ways
that impact child outcomes. The complex picture that has emerged, however, is obscured by …

Parental caregiving includes a set of highly conserved behaviors and mental states that may
reflect both an individual's genetic endowment and the early experience of being cared for …

Interacting parenting thoughts and behaviors critically shape human infants' current and
future behavior. Indeed, the parent-infant relationship provides infants with their first social …

Brain networks that govern parental response to infant signals have been studied with
imaging techniques over the last 15 years. The complex interaction of thoughts and …