Reorganization of the maternal brain upon childbirth triggers the species-typical maternal
social behavior. These brief social moments carry profound effects on the infant's brain and …

Biobehavioral synchrony, the coordination of physiological and behavioral signals between
mother and infant during social contact, tunes the child's brain to the social world. Probing …

The mother–infant bond provides the foundation for the infant's future mental health and
adaptation and depends on the provision of species-typical maternal behaviors that are …

This chapter outlines how primary maternal preoccupation has laid a foundation for a
number of neuroimaging studies that have evidenced how the brain is shaped with the onset …

Maternal body odors serve as important safety-promoting and social recognition signals, but
their role in human brain maturation is largely unknown. Utilizing ecological paradigms and …

Despite increasing emphasis on emergent brain‐behavior patterns supporting language,
cognitive, and socioemotional development in toddlerhood, methodologic challenges …

Research on the human parental brain implicated brain networks involved in simulation,
mentalization and emotion processing and indicated that stimuli of own parent–child …

Parental neuroimaging promises to shed light on how humans adapt to the demands of
parenthood, but this research is not without challenges. A study in this issue reports …

Studies have long observed the bidirectional nature of mother–infant relationships. While
behavioral studies have shown that mothers high in social avoidance tendencies can …

Mammalian young are born with immature brain and rely on the mother's body and
caregiving behavior for maturation of neurobiological systems that sustain adult sociality …