ArticleBiology letters2020
Breastfeeding dynamically changes endogenous oxytocin levels and emotion recognition in mothers.
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- Endogenous oxytocin and human social interactions: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychological bulletinPooled it
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- Inter-brain synchrony during mother-infant interactive parenting in 3-4-month-old infants with and without an elevated likelihood of autism spectrum disorder.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- The contributions of parental lactation on offspring development: It's not udder nonsense!Hormones and behavior · 2023Review
- The continued importance of comparative auditory research to modern scientific discovery.Hearing research · 2023Review
- The evolved nest, oxytocin functioning, and prosocial development.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Exploring the reasons why mothers do not breastfeed, to inform and enable better support.Frontiers in global women's health · 2023Article
- How does it feel? An exploration of neurobiological and clinical correlates of alexithymia in trauma-exposed police-officers with and without PTSD.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
- The relationship between oxytocin levels with empathy and breastfeeding intention in female medical students: A cross-sectional study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Article
- Emotion Recognition of Violin Playing Based on Big Data Analysis Technologies.Journal of environmental and public health · 2022Article
- Synthesis as an Expanding Resource in Human Milk Science.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2021Review
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Abstract
Breastfeeding behaviours can significantly change mothers' physiological and psychological states. The hormone oxytocin may mediate breastfeeding and mothers' emotion recognition. This study examined the effects of endogenous oxytocin fluctuation via breastfeeding on emotion recognition in 51 primiparous mothers. Saliva oxytocin was assessed before and after the manipulation (breastfeeding or holding an infant), and emotion recognition tasks were conducted. Among mothers who breastfed daily, mothers with more increased levels of oxytocin after breastfeeding showed more reduced negative recognition and enhanced positive recognition of adult facial expressions. These oxytocin functions accompanying breastfeeding may support continued nurturing behaviours and also affect the general social cognition of other adults beyond any specific effect on infants.
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