ArticleFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2014
Duration of exclusive breastfeeding is associated with differences in infants' brain responses to emotional body expressions.
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- Epigenetic modification of the oxytocin receptor gene is associated with emotion processing in the infant brain.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2019Article
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- Intestinal transepithelial permeability of oxytocin into the blood is dependent on the receptor for advanced glycation end products in mice.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Environmental influence in the brain, human welfare and mental health.Nature neuroscience · 2015Review
- Genetic variation in CD38 and breastfeeding experience interact to impact infants' attention to social eye cues.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
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Abstract
Much research has recognized the general importance of maternal behavior in the early development and programing of the mammalian offspring's brain. Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) duration, the amount of time in which breastfed meals are the only source of sustenance, plays a prominent role in promoting healthy brain and cognitive development in human children. However, surprisingly little is known about the influence of breastfeeding on social and emotional development in infancy. In the current study, we examined whether and how the duration of EBF impacts the neural processing of emotional signals by measuring electro-cortical responses to body expressions in 8-month-old infants. Our analyses revealed that infants with high EBF experience show a significantly greater neural sensitivity to happy body expressions than those with low EBF experience. Moreover, regression analyses revealed that the neural bias toward happiness or fearfulness differs as a function of the duration of EBF. Specifically, longer breastfeeding duration is associated with a happy bias, whereas shorter breastfeeding duration is associated with a fear bias. These findings suggest that breastfeeding experience can shape the way in which infants respond to emotional signals.
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