Substance use disorders constitute a significant public health problem in North America and
worldwide. Specifically, substance addictions in women during pregnancy or in the …

Fathers have an important and unique influence on child development, but influences on
fathers' parenting have been vastly understudied in the scientific literature. In particular, very …

Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy bridges the fields of attachment studies and thanatology,
uniting theory, research, and practice to enrich our understanding of how and why people …

Emerging evidence points to the transition to parenthood as a critical window for adult
neural plasticity. Studying fathers offers a unique opportunity to explore how parenting …

Background During the pregnancy and postpartum period, both women and men
experience physiological and psychological changes, which may negatively impact their …

The social environment presents the human brain with the most complex information
processing demands. The computations that the brain must perform occur in parallel …

Bonding is crucial to perinatal mental health. Despite an extensive body of literature on
maternal bonding, few studies have focused on paternal bonding. This scoping review …

We studied the timing of the spontaneous vocalization that occurs in dyadic interactions of
fathers and their neonates. We recorded 21 fathers speaking to their 2 to 4‐day‐old …

Parent-child shared experiences has an important influence on social development in
children although contributions of mothers and fathers may differ. Neural synchronicity …

Increased father–infant physical contact may promote early paternal caregiving. This
randomized controlled trial, preregistered on https://osf. io/qwe3a, tested the effects of a soft …