ReviewSocial neuroscience2015
Social buffering of stress responses in nonhuman primates: Maternal regulation of the development of emotional regulatory brain circuits.
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77 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 138 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Depression in adolescence and young adulthood: the difficulty to integrate motivational/emotional systems.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Review
- Linking maternal disrupted interaction and infant limbic volumes: The role of infant cortisol output.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2023Article
- Hair and plasma cortisol throughout the first 3 years of development in infant rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta.Developmental psychobiology · 2023Article
- Leveraging the developmental neuroscience of caregiving to promote resilience among youth exposed to adversity.Development and psychopathology · 2023Article
- Hurricanes affect diversification among individual life courses of a primate population.The Journal of animal ecology · 2023Article
- Somatovisceral influences on emotional development.Emotion review : journal of the International Society for Research on Emotion · 2023Article
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Abstract
Social buffering, the phenomenon by which the presence of a familiar individual reduces or even eliminates stress- and fear-induced responses, exists in different animal species and has been examined in the context of the mother-infant relationship, in addition to adults. Although it is a well-known effect, the biological mechanisms that underlie it as well as its developmental impact are not well understood. Here, we provide a review of evidence of social and maternal buffering of stress reactivity in nonhuman primates, and some data from our group suggesting that when the mother-infant relationship is disrupted, maternal buffering is impaired. This evidence underscores the critical role that maternal care plays for proper regulation and development of emotional and stress responses of primate infants. Disruptions of the parent-infant bond constitute early adverse experiences associated with increased risk for psychopathology. We will focus on infant maltreatment, a devastating experience not only for humans, but for nonhuman primates as well. Taking advantage of this naturalistic animal model of adverse maternal caregiving, we have shown that competent maternal care is critical for the development of healthy attachment, social behavior, and emotional and stress regulation, as well as of the neural circuits underlying these functions.
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