ReviewFrontiers in neuroendocrinology2021
How stress can influence brain adaptations to motherhood.
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- The psychological impact of childbirth: Unscheduled cesarean delivery associates with increased risk for acute stress response.Pregnancy (Hoboken, N.J.) · 2026Article
- Appetitive maternal behavior in mice is resistant to perinatal chronic variable stress and perinatal chronic corticosterone treatment.Hormones and behavior · 2026Article
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- Coping strategies used by migrant women during pregnancy. An integrative review.Investigacion y educacion en enfermeria · 2025Review
- Emotional Brain Development: Neurobiological Indicators from Fetus Through Toddlerhood.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Executive functioning in matrescence and implications for perinatal depression.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Review
- Stress-induced modulation of maternal behavior and mesolimbic dopamine function.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2024Article
- Prenatal Stress and Maternal Role in Neurodevelopment.Annual review of developmental psychology · 2024Article
- A multilevel developmental psychopathology model of childbirth and the perinatal transition.Development and psychopathology · 2024Review
- Stress and reward in the maternal brain of mothers with borderline personality disorder: a script-based fMRI study.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2024Article
- The Neuroanatomy of the Habenular Complex and Its Role in the Regulation of Affective Behaviors.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2024Review
- Perinatal Mental Health Outcomes Following Natural Disasters.JAMA psychiatry · 2023Article
- Des expériences négatives de l'enfance à la santé relationnelle précoce : les conséquences pour la pratique clinique.Paediatrics & child health · 2023Review
- Postpartum scarcity-adversity inflicts sex-specific cerebellar adaptations and reward behaviors in adolescence.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2023Article
- From ACEs to early relational health: Implications for clinical practice.Paediatrics & child health · 2023Review
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Abstract
Research shows that a woman's brain and body undergo drastic changes to support her transition to parenthood during the perinatal period. The presence of this plasticity suggests that mothers' brains may be changed by their experiences. Exposure to severe stress may disrupt adaptive changes in the maternal brain and further impact the neural circuits of stress regulation and maternal motivation. Emerging literature of human mothers provides evidence that stressful experience, whether from the past or present environment, is associated with altered responses to infant cues in brain circuits that support maternal motivation, emotion regulation, and empathy. Interventions that reduce stress levels in mothers may reverse the negative impact of stress exposure on the maternal brain. Finally, outstanding questions regarding the timing, chronicity, types, and severity of stress exposure, as well as study design to identify the causal impact of stress, and the role of race/ethnicity are discussed.
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