ReviewClinical child and family psychology review2022
The Neural Basis of Human Fatherhood: A Unique Biocultural Perspective on Plasticity of Brain and Behavior.
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- A holistic review of fatherhood in humans and non-human animals: mechanisms of fatherhood, effects on fathers themselves, and interactions of fathers with others.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
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- Pain knowledge and personal experiences can influence clinical pain management attitudes: a cross-sectional study.BMC medical education · 2025Article
- Caregiver or Playmate? Fathers' and mothers' brain responses to ball-play with children.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Paternal involvement and peer competence in young children: the mediating role of playfulness.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- A process model of parental executive functioning as a spillover mechanism linking interparental conflict and parenting difficulties across parenting domains.Developmental psychology · 2024Article
- An Integrative Model of Youth Anxiety: Cognitive-Affective Processes and Parenting in Developmental Context.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2023Article
- First-time fathers show longitudinal gray matter cortical volume reductions: evidence from two international samples.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Maternal and paternal depressive symptoms and parental vocalisation behaviours in infancy: findings from UK-based birth cohort.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Women in science: myth, harsh reality, or advantage.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
With the growing involvement of fathers in childrearing and the application of neuroscientific tools to research on parenting, there is a need to understand how a father's brain and neurohormonal systems accommodate the transition to parenthood and how such neurobiological changes impact children's mental health, sociality, and family functioning. In this paper, we present a theoretical model on the human father's brain and the neural adaptations that take place when fathers assume an involved role. The neurobiology of fatherhood shows great variability across individuals, societies, and cultures and is shaped to a great extent by bottom-up caregiving experiences and the amount of childrearing responsibilities. Mechanisms of mother-father coparental brain coordination and hormonal correlates of paternal behavior are detailed. Adaptations in the father's brain during pregnancy and across the postpartum year carry long-term implications for children's emotion regulation, stress management, and symptom formation. We propose a new conceptual model of HEALthy Father Brain that describes how a father's brain serves as a source of resilience in the context of family adversity and its capacity to "heal", protect, and foster social brain maturation and functionality in family members via paternal sensitivity, attunement, and support, which, in turn, promote child development and healthy family functioning. Father's brain provides a unique model on neural plasticity as sustained by committed acts of caregiving, thereby affording a novel perspective on the brain basis of human affiliation.
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