Maternal care experienced during postnatal development predicts long‐term
neurobiological and behavioral outcomes. However, the cascade of behavioral changes that …

Maternal care represents an essential environmental factor during the first post-natal week
(s) of rodents and is known to have lasting consequences for neuronal structure, brain …

Weaning is one of the most important events in the early stage of life, and recently we have
found that precocious weaning augments anxiety and aggressiveness in mice. Maternal …

Rat dams show natural variations in maternal care, licking and grooming (LG), that are
associated with distinct behavioral and neural phenotypes in offspring. However, there has …

Features of the early postnatal environment profoundly shape later physical and behavioral
phenotypes. The amount of licking/grooming that rat dams direct towards their offspring has …

Parental care plays an important role in the emotional and cognitive development of the
offspring. Children who have been exposed to abuse or neglect are more likely to develop …

During early life, animals are sensitive to environmental events that may lead to short-term
and long-lasting changes in their neurobiology and behavior, which could be related to …

Postnatal stimuli affect many aspects of physiological and behavioral development. In mice,
earlier weaning augments anxiety, putatively as a result of removing mother–pup …

Maternal care during the first week postpartum has long-term consequences for offspring
development in rodents. However, mother-infant interactions continue well beyond this …

Defining the relationship between maternal care, sensory development and brain gene
expression in neonates is important to understand the impact of environmental challenges …