ReviewJournal of neuroendocrinology2011
A bold view of the lactating brain: functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of suckling in awake dams.
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- Learning to like vegetables during breastfeeding: a randomized clinical trial of lactating mothers and infants.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2017Trial
- GABAergic Neuroactive Steroids and Network States: Relevance to Peripartum Depression.Biological psychiatry · 2026Review
- Milkability in dam-calf contact systems.Translational animal science · 2026Article
- Roadmap for maternal behavior research in domestic dogs: lessons from decades of laboratory rodent work.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2024Review
- The social network: Neural control of sex differences in reproductive behaviors, motivation, and response to social isolation.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2021Review
- A Scientometric Approach to Review the Role of the Medial Preoptic Area (MPOA) in Parental Behavior.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Cellular Composition of the Preoptic Area Regulating Sleep, Parental, and Sexual Behavior.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Review
- Adaptations in reward-related behaviors and mesolimbic dopamine function during motherhood and the postpartum period.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2020Review
- The parental brain and behavior: A target for endocrine disruption.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2019Review
- The maternal reward system in postpartum depression.Archives of women's mental health · 2019Review
- Social touch and human development.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2019Review
- Genetic and neuroendocrine regulation of the postpartum brain.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2016Review
- Addiction and reward-related genes show altered expression in the postpartum nucleus accumbens.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2014Article
- Firing patterns of maternal rat prelimbic neurons during spontaneous contact with pups.Brain research bulletin · 2012Article
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Abstract
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used to investigate the responsiveness of the maternal rat brain to pup-suckling under various experimental paradigms. Our research employing the lactating rat model has explored the cortical sensory processing of pup stimuli and the effect of suckling on the brain's reward system. Suckling was observed to increase blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal intensity in the midbrain, striatum and prefrontal cortex, which are areas that receive prominent dopaminergic inputs. The BOLD activation of the reward system occurs in parallel with the activation of extensive cortical sensory areas. The observed regions include the olfactory cortex, auditory cortex and gustatory cortex, and could correspond to cortical representations of pup odours, vocalisations and taste that are active during lactation. Activation patterns within reward regions are consistent with past research on maternal motivation and we explore the possibility that exposure to drugs of abuse might be disruptive of maternal neural responses to pups, particularly in the prefrontal cortex. Our ongoing fMRI studies support and extend past research on the maternal rat brain and its functional neurocircuitry.
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