Neural mechanisms of mother–infant bonding and pair bonding: Similarities, differences, and broader implications

M Numan, LJ Young - Hormones and behavior, 2016 - Elsevier
This article is part of a Special Issue “Parental Care”. Mother–infant bonding is a
characteristic of virtually all mammals. The maternal neural system may have provided the …

The origins of altruism in offspring care.

SD Preston - Psychological bulletin, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
The current review aims to unify existing views of altruism through an examination of the
biological bases of a fundamental form of giving: altruistic responding. Altruistic responding …

The ventral pallidum: Subregion-specific functional anatomy and roles in motivated behaviors

DH Root, RI Melendez, L Zaborszky, TC Napier - Progress in neurobiology, 2015 - Elsevier
The ventral pallidum (VP) plays a critical role in the processing and execution of motivated
behaviors. Yet this brain region is often overlooked in published discussions of the …

Sensitive periods in human social development: New insights from research on oxytocin, synchrony, and high-risk parenting

R Feldman - Development and psychopathology, 2015 - cambridge.org
Sensitive periods (SP) in behavioral development appeared in the biological sciences
during the first decade of the 20th century, and research in animal models beginning in the …

Paternal behavior

M Numan, TR Insel - The neurobiology of parental behavior, 2003 - Springer
Male behavioral responses to offspring range from avoidance to infanticide to nurturing care.
If this book were focussed on parental care among nonmammalian vertebrates, most of the …

The neural mechanisms and consequences of paternal caregiving

R Feldman, K Braun, FA Champagne - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2019 - nature.com
In recent decades, human sociocultural changes have increased the numbers of fathers that
are involved in direct caregiving in Western societies. This trend has led to a resurgence of …

Medial preoptic area interactions with dopamine neural systems in the control of the onset and maintenance of maternal behavior in rats

M Numan, DS Stolzenberg - Frontiers in neuroendocrinology, 2009 - Elsevier
The medial preoptic area (MPOA) and dopamine (DA) neural systems interact to regulate
maternal behavior in rats. Two DA systems are involved: the mesolimbic DA system and the …

Motivational systems and the neural circuitry of maternal behavior in the rat

M Numan - Developmental Psychobiology: The Journal of the …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Jay Rosenblatt's approach‐avoidance model of maternal behavior proposes that maternal
behavior occurs when the tendency to approach infant stimuli is greater than the tendency to …

[BOOK][B] The parental brain: mechanisms, development, and evolution

M Numan - 2020 - books.google.com
The Parental Brain: Mechanisms, Development, and Evolution presents a comprehensive
analysis of how the brain regulates parental behavior in nonhuman animals and in humans …

Mother–infant bonding and the evolution of mammalian social relationships

KD Broad, JP Curley… - … Transactions of the …, 2006 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A wide variety of maternal, social and sexual bonding strategies have been described
across mammalian species, including humans. Many of the neural and hormonal …