[HTML][HTML] Being the father of a preterm-born child: contemporary research and recommendations for NICU staff

F Baldoni, G Ancora, JM Latour - Frontiers in pediatrics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Most studies on parental reactions to a preterm birth and to hospitalization of
the newborn in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) have involved mothers. However …

Maternal perinatal anxiety and neural responding to infant affective signals: Insights, challenges, and a road map for neuroimaging research

T Yatziv, EA Vancor, M Bunderson… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Anxiety symptoms are common among women during pregnancy and the postpartum
period, potentially having detrimental effects on both mother and child's well-being. Perinatal …

Advancing the RDoC initiative through the assessment of caregiver social processes

LS King, VC Salo, A Kujawa… - Development and …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The relationships infants and young children have with their caregivers are fundamental to
their survival and well-being. Theorists and researchers across disciplines have attempted …

Mother brain is wired for social moments

O Shimon-Raz, R Salomon, M Bloch… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
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 …

Parent and peer emotion responsivity styles: an extension of Gottman's emotion socialization parenting typologies

JE Jespersen, NR Hardy, AS Morris - Children, 2021 - mdpi.com
This theoretical paper introduces six emotion socialization typologies that can be used for
designating emotion responsivity styles of parents and peers of children in middle …

Theory of mind processing in expectant fathers: Associations with prenatal oxytocin and parental attunement

SI Cardenas, SA Stoycos, P Sellery… - Developmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Social cognition may facilitate fathers' sensitive caregiving behavior. We administered the
Why‐How Task, an fMRI task that elicits theory of mind processing, to expectant fathers (n …

[HTML][HTML] Postpartum depression is associated with altered neural connectivity between affective and mentalizing regions during mother-infant interactions

JK Morgan, H Santosa, RM Fridley… - Frontiers in Global …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Although there has been growing interest in mood-related neural alterations in women in the
initial weeks postpartum, recent work has demonstrated that postpartum depression often …

Parent and peer attachments in adolescence and paternal postpartum mental health: findings from the ATP Generation 3 Study

JA Macdonald, CJ Greenwood, P Letcher… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: When adolescent boys experience close, secure relationships with their
parents and peers, the implications are potentially far reaching, including lower levels of …

[HTML][HTML] Neural signatures of parental empathic responses to imagined suffering of their adolescent child

MCM Wever, LAEM van Houtum, LHC Janssen, GJ Will… - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Empathy is deemed indispensable for sensitive caregiving. Neuroimaging studies have
identified canonical empathy networks consisting of regions supporting cognitive and …

Adults' responses to infant faces: Neutral infant facial expressions elicit the strongest baby schema effect

YC Jia, FY Ding, G Cheng, J Chen… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The effect of the babyface schema includes three typical responses, namely, the preference
response, viewing motivation, and attention bias towards infant faces. It has been theorised …