Nursing stimulation is more than tactile sensation: It is a multisensory experience

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 330-339

  Febo, Marcelo ^a   Stolberg, Tara L ^a   Numan, Michael ^b   Bridges, Robert S ^c   Kulkarni, Praveen ^a   Ferris, Craig F ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BOLD; Breastfeeding; fMRI; Lactation; Maternal behavior; Multisensory; Neural circuits; Nursing; Rats; Sensory; Suckling

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; LACTATION; MEMORY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY CORTEX; PERCEPTION; PRIMIPARA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; RAT; SKIN STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUCKLING; TACTILE STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BRAIN; FEMALE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LACTATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSATION; TOUCH;

EID: 45449093379     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2008.02.024     Document Type: Article

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