Neurobiology of culturally common maternal responses to infant cry

MH Bornstein, DL Putnick, P Rigo… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
This report coordinates assessments of five types of behavioral responses in new mothers to
their own infants' cries with neurobiological responses in new mothers to their own infants' …

Right frontoinsular cortex and subcortical activity to infant cry is associated with maternal mental state talk

AE Hipwell, C Guo, ML Phillips, JE Swain… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
The study objective was to examine neural correlates of a specific component of human
caregiving: maternal mental state talk, reflecting a mother9s proclivity to attribute mental …

A cry in the dark: depressed mothers show reduced neural activation to their own infant's cry

HK Laurent, JC Ablow - Social cognitive and affective …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
This study investigated depression-related differences in primiparous mothers' neural
response to their own infant's distress cues. Mothers diagnosed with major depressive …

[HTML][HTML] The neural correlates of maternal sensitivity: an fMRI study

ED Musser, H Kaiser-Laurent, JC Ablow - Developmental cognitive …, 2012 - Elsevier
Research on maternal neural response to infant distress highlights circuits that may underlie
differences in quality of maternal behavior. However, it is far from clear which circuits are …

Explaining individual variation in paternal brain responses to infant cries

T Li, M Horta, JS Mascaro, K Bijanki, LH Arnal… - Physiology & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Crying is the principal means by which newborn infants shape parental behavior to meet
their needs. While this mechanism can be highly effective, infant crying can also be an …

Duration of motherhood has incremental effects on mothers' neural processing of infant vocal cues: a neuroimaging study of women

CE Parsons, KS Young, MV Petersen… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Associations between stress exposure and new mothers' brain responses to infant cry sounds

P Kim, R Tribble, AK Olsavsky, AJ Dufford, A Erhart… - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
Exposure to severe stress has been linked to negative postpartum outcomes among new
mothers including mood disorders and harsh parenting. Non-human animal studies show …

Breastfeeding, brain activation to own infant cry, and maternal sensitivity

P Kim, R Feldman, LC Mayes, V Eicher… - Journal of child …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Background: Research points to the importance of breastfeeding for promoting close mother–
infant contact and social‐emotional development. Recent functional magnetic resonance …

Evidence for a caregiving instinct: rapid differentiation of infant from adult vocalizations using magnetoencephalography

KS Young, CE Parsons, EM Jegindoe Elmholdt… - Cerebral …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Crying is the most salient vocal signal of distress. The cries of a newborn infant alert adult
listeners and often elicit caregiving behavior. For the parent, rapid responding to an infant in …

Feasibility of using fMRI to study mothers responding to infant cries

JP Lorberbaum, JD Newman, JR Dubno… - Depression and …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
While parenting is a universal human behavior, its neuroanatomic basis is currently
unknown. Animal data suggest that the cingulate may play an important function in …