ReviewNew directions for child and adolescent development2016
Oxytocin and Maternal Brain Plasticity.
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- Birthing parents' neural response to infant cry: moderating effects of oxytocin and perceived childhood care.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Trajectories of changes in oxytocin and vasopressin before, during, and after mother-infant interaction: a descriptive study of mothers and infants affected by postpartum depression.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Oxytocin receptors in the nucleus accumbens shell are necessary for the onset of maternal behavior.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Recalibration of the stress response system over adult development: Is there a perinatal recalibration period?Development and psychopathology · 2023Review
- Oxytocin and orexin systems bidirectionally regulate the ability of opioid cues to bias reward seeking.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
- Lateral habenula neurocircuits mediate the maternal disruptive effect of maternal stress: A hypothesis.Zoological research · 2022Review
- Oxytocin Neurons Are Essential in the Social Transmission of Maternal Behavior.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Effects of Prenatal Phthalate Exposure and Childhood Exercise on Maternal Behaviors in Female Rats at Postpartum: A Role ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
- Yawning Is More Contagious in Pregnant Than Nulliparous Women : Naturalistic and Experimental Evidence.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2021Article
- How stress can influence brain adaptations to motherhood.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2021Review
- Reproduction-Associated Hormones and Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis.Neural plasticity · 2021Review
- The oxytocinergic system in PTSD following traumatic childbirth: endogenous and exogenous oxytocin in the peripartum period.Archives of women's mental health · 2020Review
- Regulation of uterine genes during the peri-implantation period, and its relationship to the maternal brain in gestating mice.Molecular reproduction and development · 2020Article
- Delivering Clinically on Our Knowledge of Oxytocin and Sensory Stimulation: The Potential of Infant Carrying in Primary Prevention.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Neural Substrates of Parental Care.Trends in neurosciences · 2019Review
- Brain plasticity in pregnancy and the postpartum period: links to maternal caregiving and mental health.Archives of women's mental health · 2019Article
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- Mothers with substance addictions show reduced reward responses when viewing their own infant's face.Human brain mapping · 2017Article
- Epigenetic and Neural Circuitry Landscape of Psychotherapeutic Interventions.Psychiatry journal · 2017Review
- Specification of Change Mechanisms in Pregnant Smokers for Malleable Target Identification: A Novel Approach to a Tenacious Public Health Problem.Frontiers in public health · 2017Article
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Abstract
Although dramatic postnatal changes in maternal behavior have long been noted, we are only now beginning to understand the neurobiological mechanisms that support this transition. The present paper synthesizes growing insights from both animal and human research to provide an overview of the plasticity of the mother's brain, with a particular emphasis on the oxytocin system. We examine plasticity observed within the oxytocin system and discuss how these changes mediate an array of other adaptations observed within the maternal brain. We outline factors that affect the oxytocin-mediated plasticity of the maternal brain and review evidence linking disruptions in oxytocin functions to challenges in maternal adaptation. We conclude by suggesting a strategy for intervention with mothers who may be at risk for maladjustment during this transition to motherhood, while highlighting areas where further research is needed.
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