The neural basis of human fatherhood: a unique biocultural perspective on plasticity of brain and behavior

E Abraham, R Feldman - Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2022 - Springer
… Mechanisms of mother-father coparental brain coordination … , and activated brain circuits
implicated in empathy and approachMRI study of 35 white American mothers and fathers, gray …

Dads: Progress in understanding the neuroendocrine basis of human fathering behavior

AE Storey, H Alloway, CJ Walsh - Hormones and behavior, 2020 - Elsevier
… testosterone, prolactin, oxytocin and vasopressin in fathering … An experimental design that
assessed approach tendencies, … , permitting appropriate social coordination of the parents' …

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
oxytocin levels were similar across mothers and fathers, … , our paper uniquely uses a
longitudinal approach that combines a … ; 82.05%) completing MRI scan visits within 2 weeks of the …

[HTML][HTML] Neurobiological correlates of fatherhood during the postpartum period: A scoping review

M Sobral, F Pacheco, B Perry, J Antunes… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… , oxytocin, prolactin, and cortisol levels) and neurofunctional alterations (changed activity
in several brain networks related to empathy and approach … predicted father’s coordinated

Mother-infant attunement: A multilevel approach via body, brain, and behavior

MH Bornstein - Parenting: Selected Writings of Marc H. Bornstein, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
… to attunement requires understanding coordinated functions at … activate key brain regions
to augment mothers’ and fathers’ … Oxytocin facilitates parental care in female prairie voles (but …

What is resilience: an affiliative neuroscience approach

R Feldman - World psychiatry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… enables mammalian mothers (and fathers in bi-parental species) … moments”, when parent
and child coordinate their non-verbal … in the oxytocin receptor gene in child, mother and father

Mother brain is wired for social moments

O Shimon-Raz, R Salomon, M Bloch… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
coordination of physiological processes, allowing the mature … ) approach for each participant
between the oxytocin and … -father families and other family constellations, such as single or …

Neuroendocrinology of Human Cooperation and Parental Care

JK Rilling - … of Behavior and Emotions: Environmental and Social …, 2024 - Springer
… that oxytocin acts on midbrain dopamine circuits to promote parental motivation in both human
mothers and fathers. … Similar approaches have been used to study human cooperation. …

Coregulation: a multilevel approach via biology and behavior

MH Bornstein, G Esposito - Children, 2023 - mdpi.com
parent and child involves the coordination of biological and … in the oxytocin receptor gene
and the quality of parental bonding … 88 mothers and 57 fathers who engaged in parentchild

Functional near‐infrared spectroscopy is a useful tool for multi‐perspective psychobiological study of neurophysiological correlates of parenting behaviour

C Russo, VP Senese - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… -system psychobiological approach to the study of parental … the role of oxytocin in the human
parental brain have shown … However, fathers have also shown a reduction in grey matter in …