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Recent Neuroscience Advances in Human Parenting

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The transition to parenthood entails brain adaptations to the demands of caring for a newborn. This chapter reviews recent neuroscience findings on human parenting, focusing on neuroimaging studies. First, we describe the brain circuits underlying human maternal behavior, which comprise ancient subcortical circuits and more sophisticated cortical regions. Then, we present the short-term and long-term functional and structural brain adaptations that characterize the transition to motherhood, discuss the long-term effects of parenthood on the brain, and propose several underlying neural mechanisms. We also review neuroimaging findings in biological fathers and alloparents (such as other relatives or adoptive parents), who engage in parenting without directly experiencing pregnancy or childbirth. Finally, we describe perinatal mental illnesses and discuss the neural responses associated with such disorders. To date, studies indicate that parenthood is a period of enhanced brain plasticity within brain areas critical for cognitive and social processing and that both parenting experience and gestational-related factors can prime such plasticity.
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hal-04221087 , version 1 (28-09-2023)

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Magdalena Martínez-García, Sofia I Cardenas, Jodi Pawluski, Susanna Carmona, Darby E Saxbe. Recent Neuroscience Advances in Human Parenting. Patterns of Parental Behavior, 27, pp.239-267, 2022, Advances in Neurobiology, ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-97762-7_8⟩. ⟨hal-04221087⟩
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