ReviewTrends in neurosciences2010
Parenting and plasticity.
Review in Trends in neurosciences, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers.
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73 citing papers in PubMed.
- A pilot randomised controlled trial on the effectiveness of infant massage on the acceptance, commitment and awareness of influence in parents of babies with Down syndrome.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2023Trial
- Effect of home visiting by nurses on maternal and child mortality: results of a 2-decade follow-up of a randomized clinical trial.JAMA pediatrics · 2014Trial
- No laughing matter: intranasal oxytocin administration changes functional brain connectivity during exposure to infant laughter.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2012Trial
- Different early-life adversity paradigms have disparate effects on maternal care, neuronal activation, and social behavior in developing mice.Neurobiology of stress · 2026Article
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- Postpartum adversity in rats creates a hypervigilant maternal state through selective salience-circuit recruitment.Neurobiology of stress · 2026Article
- Social Behavior and Neurogenesis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Sex-Specific Effects of Experience With Pups on Perineuronal Net Expression in the Biparental California Mouse (Peromyscus californicus).The Journal of comparative neurology · 2025Article
- Male caregiving experience alters hippocampal neuroplasticity and transcription independent of reproduction in a biparental species.Communications biology · 2025Article
- Persistent dopamine-dependent remodeling of the neural transcriptome in response to pregnancy and postpartum.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Single-Cell Peptide Profiling to Distinguish Stickleback Ecotypes with Divergent Breeding Behavior.Journal of proteome research · 2025Article
- The central role of the individual in the history of brains.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Review
- Longitudinal Neuroanatomical Increases from Early to One-Year Postpartum.Research square · 2024Article
- Effects of reproductive experience on cost-benefit decision making in female rats.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Preliminary report: Sleep duration during late pregnancy predicts postpartum emotional responses among parents at risk for postpartum depression.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2024Article
- Cellular and molecular signatures of motherhood in the adult and ageing rat brain.Open biology · 2023Article
- The transition to motherhood: linking hormones, brain and behaviour.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2023Review
- Polygenic scores for social science: Clarification, consensus, and controversy.The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2023Article
- Mating-induced prolactin surge is not required for subsequent neurogenesis in male mice.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Effects of pairing on color change and central gene expression in lined seahorses.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2022Article
13 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
As any new parent knows, having a baby provides opportunities for enrichment, learning and stress - experiences known to change the adult brain. Yet surprisingly little is known about the effects of maternal experience, and even less about the effects of paternal experience, on neural circuitry not directly involved in parenting. Here we discuss how caregiving and the accompanying experiential and hormonal changes influence the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, brain regions involved in cognition and mood regulation. A better understanding of how parenting impacts the brain is likely to help in devising strategies for treating parental depression, a condition that can have serious cognitive and mental health consequences for children.
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