The peripartum period offers a unique opportunity to improve our understanding of how
dramatic fluctuations in endogenous ovarian hormones affect the human brain and …

Procrastination is a pervasive phenomenon across different cultures and brings about lots of
serious consequences, including performance, subjective well-being, and even public …

The transition to motherhood, and the resultant experience of caregiving, may change the
way women respond to affective, infant signals in their environments. Nonhuman animal …

The field of neuroscience has largely overlooked the impact of motherhood on brain function
outside the context of responses to infant stimuli. Here, we apply spectral dynamic causal …

Pregnancy is accompanied by complex biological adaptations, including extreme hormonal
fluctuations. Moreover, changes on the endocrine level are accompanied by changes in …

The mother-infant relationship is one of the most important bonds among all mammals and
develops when a mother shows emotional and physical attention toward her infant. Studies …

Initiation and maintenance of maternal behavior is driven by a complex interaction between
the physiology of parturition and offspring stimulation, causing functional changes in …

Breastfeeding behaviours can significantly change mothers' physiological and psychological
states. The hormone oxytocin may mediate breastfeeding and mothers' emotion recognition …

Maternal brain adaptations occur in response to pregnancy, but little is known about how
parity impacts white matter and white matter ageing trajectories later in life. Utilising global …

Highlights•Sex steroid hormones influence the brain across multiple spatiotemporal
scales.•Dense-sampling can uncover brain–hormone interactions at higher temporal …