Although interest in the neurobiology of parent–infant bonding is a century old,
neuroimaging of the human parental brain is recent. After summarizing current comparative …

Parents know the transformative nature of having and caring for a child. Among many
mammals, giving birth leads from an aversion to infant stimuli to irresistible attraction. Here …

Childhood is the time when we forge our first social bonds, first learn how to express and
read basic human emotions, and first make sense of the physical world. In childhood …

Although contemporary socio-cultural changes dramatically increased fathers' involvement
in childrearing, little is known about the brain basis of human fatherhood, its comparability …

Brain networks that govern parental response to infant signals have been studied with
imaging techniques over the last 15 years. The complex interaction of thoughts and …

Multiple lines of research indicate that fathers often treat boys and girls differently in ways
that impact child outcomes. The complex picture that has emerged, however, is obscured by …

The Parental Brain: Mechanisms, Development, and Evolution presents a comprehensive
analysis of how the brain regulates parental behavior in nonhuman animals and in humans …

Highlights•Paternal care is associated with hormonal changes in rodents, primates and
humans.•Paternal behavior depends on similar neural systems as maternal …

Women have a lifetime risk of major depression double that of men but only during their
reproductive years. This sex difference has been attributed partially to activational effects of …

With a secure foundation in basic research across mammalian species in which fathers
participate in the raising of young, novel brain‐imaging approaches are outlining a set of …