ReviewFrontiers in psychology2015
Parental brain: cerebral areas activated by infant cries and faces. A comparison between different populations of parents and not.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The Influences of Drug Abuse on Mother-Infant Interaction Through the Lens of the Biopsychosocial Model of Health and Illness: A Review.Frontiers in public health · 2019Pooled it
- Attachment and attitudes toward children: effects of security priming in parents and non-parents.Attachment & human development · 2022Trial
- Parental brain responses to own and unknown children's emotional facial expressions: An fMRI study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Parental experience and professional training shape the perception of comfort and discomfort in preterm and term newborns.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- A holistic review of fatherhood in humans and non-human animals: mechanisms of fatherhood, effects on fathers themselves, and interactions of fathers with others.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
- An exploratory fMRI study on the association of parental involvement in childcare with brain responses to infant vocalisations and dyadic interaction quality in same-sex mother families.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- The neurobiology of parenting and infant-evoked aggression.Physiological reviews · 2025Review
- Stronger brain activation for own baby but similar activation toward babies of own and different ethnicities in parents living in a multicultural environment.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Fatherhood is life changing: Uncovering structural and functional changes in the dad brain.Neuron · 2022Article
- Specific maternal brain responses to their own child's face: An fMRI meta-analysis.Developmental review : DR · 2019Article
- Neural Representation of Parental Monitoring and Links to Adolescent Risk Taking.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2019Article
- Pre-linguistic infants employ complex communicative loops to engage mothers in social exchanges and repair interaction ruptures.Royal Society open science · 2018Article
- Duration of motherhood has incremental effects on mothers' neural processing of infant vocal cues: a neuroimaging study of women.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- The Role of the Subgenual Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Amygdala in Environmental Sensitivity to Infant Crying.PloS one · 2016Article
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Abstract
Literature about parenting traditionally focused on caring behaviors and parental representations. Nowadays, an innovative line of research, interested in evaluating the neural areas and hormones implicated in the nurturing and caregiving responses, has developed. The only way to permit a newborn to survive and grow up is to respond to his needs and in order to succeed it is necessary, first of all, that the adults around him understand what his needs are. That is why adults' capacity of taking care of infants cannot disregard from some biological mechanisms, which allow them to be more responsive to the progeny and to infants in general. Many researches have proved that exist specific neural basis activating in response to infant evolutionary stimuli, such as infant cries and infant emotional facial expression. There is a sort of innate predisposition in human adults to respond to infants' signals, in order to satisfy their need and allow them to survive and become young adults capable of taking care of themselves. This article focuses on research that has investigated, in the last decade, the neural circuits underlying parental behavioral responses. Moreover, the paper compares the results of those studies that investigated the neural responses to infant stimuli under different conditions: familiar versus unknown children, parents versus non-parents and normative versus clinical samples (depression, addiction, adolescence, and PTSD).
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