Since its first description four decades ago, attachment theory (AT) has become one of the
principal developmental psychological frameworks for describing the role of individual …

Interpersonal relationships constitute the foundation on which human society is based. The
infant–caregiver bond is the earliest and most influential of these relationships. Driven by …

We examined how individual differences in mood and anxiety in the early postpartum period
are related to brain response to infant stimuli during fMRI, with particular focus on regions …

Written by two leading experts in the field, this welcome third edition of Children in Difficulty:
A guide to understanding and helping discusses some of the most common, yet …

This study addresses a gap in the attachment literature by investigating maternal neural
response to cry related to infant attachment classifications and behaviors. Twenty-two …

SYNOPSIS I review the preceding articles of this issue in the context of strategic decisions,
decisions made in the context of uncertainty or risk. From a life history perspective, these …

Critically significant parental effects in behavioral genetics may be partly understood as a
consequence of maternal brain structure and function of caregiving systems recently studied …

Parental brain responses to baby stimuli constitute a unique model to study brain-basis
frameworks of emotion. Results for baby-cry and picture stimuli may fit with both locationist …

Twenty-three percent of Canadian youth (ages 12 to 19) and 34% of Aboriginal youth, report
that their perceived mental health is something less than very good or excellent (Butler …

Squire and Stein (2003) have argued that functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is
an underexploited tool that can strengthen current understanding of maternal behaviour …