While the nutritional and physical health benefits of breastfeeding are well established,
accumulating research demonstrates the far-reaching psychological effects of breastfeeding …

Remarkable progress has been made in developing psychosocial interventions for a broad
range of psychiatric disorders for children, adolescents, and adults. In addition many efforts …

The developing human brain is shaped by environmental exposures—for better or worse.
Many exposures relevant to mental health are genuinely social in nature or believed to have …

Depression is the most common complication of childbirth and results in adverse health
outcomes for both mother and child. It is vital, therefore, that health professionals be ready to …

Background Current understanding of the etiology of autism is based on the interaction of
multiple genes with each other and with environmental factors, leading to a …

The neural capacity to discriminate between emotions emerges early in development,
though little is known about specific factors that contribute to variability in this vital skill …

Attending to emotional information conveyed by the eyes is an important social skill in
humans. The current study examined this skill in early development by measuring attention …

Objectives Gut dysbiosis has been associated with several clinically relevant conditions,
including alterations of central nervous system (CNS) structure and function development …

A bstract Maternal odor is known to play an important role in mother-infant-interaction in
many altricial species such as rodents. However, we only know very little about its role in …

Plasma oxytocin (OT) originates from secretion from the pituitary gland into the circulation
and from absorption of OT in mother's milk into the blood via intestinal permeability …