This article is part of a Special Issue “Parental Care”. Early mother–infant relationships play
important roles in infants' optimal development. New mothers undergo neurobiological …

New mothers undergo dynamic neural changes that support positive adaptation to parenting
and the development of mother–infant relationships. In this article, I review important …

The aim of this study was to investigate if normative variations in parenting relate to brain
development among typically developing children. A sample of 352 mother–infant dyads …

Each day approximately three-quarters of a million adults around the world experience the
pleasures and profits as well as the trials and tribulations of becoming a new parent. Each …

Men have the capacity to respond to the transition to fatherhood and nurturant investments
in their partners and children with shifts in neuroendocrine function (such as decreased …

Socioeconomic disadvantage such as poverty can increase distress levels, which may
further make low-income mothers more vulnerable to difficulties in the transition to …

Highlights•Reviews the research examining early caregiving and subsequent development.•
Programming and the malleability of stress-responding systems are emphasized.•Our …

It is well-known that adoptive mothers respond to cues from their babies in similar ways to
biological mothers, and that cortical processing is critical for adequate motive–emotional …

The concept of attachment in long-term interpersonal relationships has been linked to
relationship outcome and social-emotional health. To date, no relationship between the …

Decreased maternal empathic abilities toward infants have been reported with postpartum
depression (PPD). The aims of this study were:(1) To identify mothers' cortical regions …