Emotion regulation, defined as the capacity to influence one's experience and expression of
emotion, is a complex skill now recognized to evolve throughout the lifetime. Here we …

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 …

Why are negative emotions so central in art reception far beyond tragedy? Revisiting
classical aesthetics in the light of recent psychological research, we present a novel model …

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 …

There is evidence that excessive stress exposure of the brain, mediated through the
neurotoxic effects of cortisol and possibly neuroinflammation, causes damage to brain …

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 …

Animal studies suggest that structural changes occur in the maternal brain during the early
postpartum period in regions such as the hypothalamus, amygdala, parietal lobe, and …

Background: Research points to the importance of breastfeeding for promoting close mother–
infant contact and socialemotional development. Recent functional magnetic resonance …

This book brings together the latest knowledge from attachment research and neuroscience
to provide a new approach to treating trauma for therapists from different professional …

Quality of mothering relies on the integrity of multiple physiological and behavioral systems
and on two maternal factors, one proximal and one distal, that have a great impact on how a …