ArticleeLife2021
Mother brain is wired for social moments.
Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Toward reframing brain-social dynamics: current assumptions and future challenges.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Women in science: myth, harsh reality, or advantage.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Neural representation of the parent-child attachment from infancy to adulthood.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2022Article
- Oxytocin and love: Myths, metaphors and mysteries.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2022Review
- Organization of the social cognition network predicts future depression and interpersonal impairment: a prospective family-based study.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022Article
- Therapeutic Alliance as Active Inference: The Role of Therapeutic Touch and Synchrony.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Mother brain is wired for social moments.eLife · 2021Article
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Abstract
Reorganization of the maternal brain upon childbirth triggers the species-typical maternal social behavior. These brief social moments carry profound effects on the infant's brain and likely have a distinct signature in the maternal brain. Utilizing a double-blind, within-subject oxytocin/placebo administration crossover design, mothers' brain was imaged twice using fMRI while observing three naturalistic maternal-infant contexts in the home ecology; 'unavailable', 'unresponsive', and 'social', when mothers engaged in synchronous peek-a-boo play. The social condition elicited greater neural response across the human caregiving network, including amygdala, VTA, hippocampus, insula, ACC, and temporal cortex. Oxytocin impacted neural response primarily to the social condition and attenuated differences between social and non-social stimuli. Greater temporal consistency emerged in the 'social' condition across the two imaging sessions, particularly in insula, amygdala, and TP. Findings describe how mother's brain varies by caregiving experiences and gives salience to moments of social synchrony that support infant development and brain maturation.
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