Theory of mind processing in expectant fathers: Associations with prenatal oxytocin and parental attunement

SI Cardenas, SA Stoycos, P Sellery… - Developmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Social cognition may facilitate fathers' sensitive caregiving behavior. We administered the
Why‐How Task, an fMRI task that elicits theory of mind processing, to expectant fathers (n …

A hypothalamic perspective of human socioemotional behavior

A Caria - The Neuroscientist, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Historical evidence from stimulation and lesion studies in animals and humans
demonstrated a close association between the hypothalamus and typical and atypical …

Oxytocin-mediated social enrichment promotes longer telomeres and novelty seeking

J Faraji, M Karimi, N Soltanpour, A Moharrerie… - elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
The quality of social relationships is a powerful determinant of lifetime health. Here, we
explored the impact of social experiences on circulating oxytocin (OT) concentration …

Singing, sharing, soothing–biopsychosocial rationales for parental infant-directed singing in neonatal pain management: A theoretical approach

A Ullsten, M Eriksson, M Klässbo… - Music & Science, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Infant-directed singing is a medium for parents and infants to communicate in a mutual
relationship. Parental infant-directed singing is a multisensory, biopsychosocial …

Interoception sensitivity in the parental brain during the first months of parenting modulates children's somatic symptoms six years later: The role of oxytocin

E Abraham, T Hendler, O Zagoory-Sharon… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Interoception, the perception and interpretation of one's own bodily signals, is a key aspect
of human caregiving that impacts infant health and well-being across life. Interoception …

[HTML][HTML] Postpartum depression is associated with altered neural connectivity between affective and mentalizing regions during mother-infant interactions

JK Morgan, H Santosa, RM Fridley… - Frontiers in Global …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Although there has been growing interest in mood-related neural alterations in women in the
initial weeks postpartum, recent work has demonstrated that postpartum depression often …

Oxytocin in the postnatal period: Associations with attachment and maternal caregiving

J Kohlhoff, V Eapen, M Dadds, F Khan, D Silove… - Comprehensive …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background This study investigated the associations of maternal oxytocin, self-reported
attachment insecurity and depressive symptoms with maternal caregiving sensitivity at 3–4 …

Maternal brain resting‐state connectivity in the postpartum period

AJ Dufford, A Erhart, P Kim - Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In the postpartum period, the maternal brain experiences both structural and functional
plasticity. Although we have a growing understanding of the responses of the human …

Biological embedding of perinatal social relationships in infant stress reactivity

JC Thomas, N Letourneau, CI Bryce… - Developmental …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Whereas significant advances have been made in understanding how exposure to early
adversity “gets under the skin” of children to result in long term changes in developmental …

A precision medicine approach to oxytocin trials

E Andari, R Hurlemann, LJ Young - Behavioral Pharmacology of …, 2018 - Springer
In this chapter, we introduce a new area of social pharmacology that encompasses the study
of the role of neuromodulators in modulating a wide range of social behaviors and brain …