ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2022
Neural representation of the parent-child attachment from infancy to adulthood.
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- Giving new meaning to the impact of touch in Shantala massage: mothers' perceptions of maternal and child well-being.Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2024Article
- Attachment Reminders Trigger Widespread Synchrony across Multiple Brains.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Virtual social interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic: the effect of interpersonal motor synchrony on social interactions in the virtual space.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Childbirth, trauma and family relationships.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2023Article
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- Understanding social attachment as a window into the neural basis of prosocial behavior.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Attachment theory is built on the assumption of consistency; the mother-infant bond is thought to underpin the life-long representations individuals construct of attachment relationships. Still, consistency in the individual's neural response to attachment-related stimuli representing his or her entire relational history has not been investigated. Mothers and children were followed across two decades and videotaped in infancy (3-6 months), childhood (9-12 years) and young adulthood (18-24 years). In adulthood, participants underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging while exposed to videos of own mother-child interactions (Self) vs unfamiliar interactions (Other). Self-stimuli elicited greater activations across preregistered nodes of the human attachment network, including thalamus-to-brainstem, amygdala, hippocampus, anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), insula and temporal cortex. Critically, self-stimuli were age-invariant in most regions of interest despite large variability in social behavior, and Bayesian analysis showed strong evidence for lack of age-related differences. Psycho-physiological interaction analysis indicated that self-stimuli elicited tighter connectivity between ACC and anterior insula, consolidating an interface associating information from exteroceptive and interceptive sources to sustain attachment representations. Child social engagement behavior was individually stable from infancy to adulthood and linked with greater ACC and insula response to self-stimuli. Findings demonstrate overlap in circuits sustaining parental and child attachment and accord with perspectives on the continuity of attachment across human development.
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