Social interactions are essential for animals to reproduce, defend their territory, and raise
their young. The conserved nature of social behaviors across animal species suggests that …

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 …

Although contemporary socio-cultural changes dramatically increased fathers' involvement
in childrearing, little is known about the brain basis of human fatherhood, its comparability …

Infant survival and the development of secure and cooperative relationships are central to
the future of the species. In humans, this relies heavily on the evolving early parent–infant …

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 …

Mammalian infants depend on parental care for survival, with numerous consequences for
their behavioral development. We investigated the epigenetic and neurodevelopmental …

With the growing involvement of fathers in childrearing and the application of neuroscientific
tools to research on parenting, there is a need to understand how a father's brain and …

Parental care, including feeding and protection of young, is essential for the survival as well
as mental and physical well-being of the offspring. A large variety of parental behaviors has …

This article is part of a Special Issue “Parental Care”. Research on the neurobiology of
attachment, pioneered by scholars in the generation that followed the discovery of social …