Parenting and Beyond: Common Neurocircuits Underlying Parental and Altruistic Caregiving

Parenting

Volumn 12, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 115-123

  Swain, James E ^a   Konrath, Sara ^a   Brown, Stephanie L ^a   Finegood, Eric D ^a   Akce, Leyla B ^a   Dayton, Carolyn J ^a   Ho, S Shaun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863633474     PISSN: 15295192     EISSN: 15327922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15295192.2012.680409     Document Type: Article

References (51)

1. Barrett, J. and Fleming, A. S. 2011. Annual Research Review: All mothers are not created equal: Neural and psychobiological perspectives on mothering and the importance of individual differences. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52: 368-397.
2. Bartels, A. and Zeki, S. 2004. The neural correlates of maternal and romantic love. Neuroimage, 21(3): 1155-1166.
3. Beery, A. K. and Francis, D. D. 2011. Adaptive significance of natural variations in maternal care in rats: A translational perspective. Neuroscience Biobehavioral Reviews, 35(7): 1552-1561.
4. Bowlby, J. 1978. Attachment theory and its therapeutic implications. Adolescent Psychiatry, 6: 5-33.
5. Brown, S. L. and Brown, R. M. 2006. Selective investment theory: Recasting the functional significance of close relationships. Psychological Inquiry, 17: 1-29.
6. Brown, S. L., Brown, R. M. and Preston, S. 2011. "A model of human caregiving motivation". In Moving Beyond Self Interest: Perspectives from Evolutionary Biology, Neuroscience, and the Social Sciences, Edited by: Brown, S. L., Brown, R. M. and Penner, L. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
7. Cassidy, J. and Shaver, P. R. 1999. Handbook of Attachment, New York, NY: Guilford Press.
8. Champagne, F. A. 2010. Epigenetic influence of social experiences across the lifespan. Developmental Psychobiology, 52(4): 299-311.
9. Champagne, F. A., Weaver, I. C., Diorio, J., Dymov, S., Szyf, M. and Meaney, M. J. 2006. Maternal care associated with methylation of the estrogen receptor-alpha1b promoter and estrogen receptor-alpha expression in the medial preoptic area of female offspring. Endocrinology, 147(6): 2909-2915.
10. Curley, J. P., Jensen, C. L., Mashoodh, R. and Champagne, F. A. 2012. Social influences on neurobiology and behavior: Epigenetic effects during development. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 36(3): 352-371.
11. De Waal, F. 1996. Good natured: The origins of right and wrong in humans and other animals, Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univesity Press.
12. De Waal, F. 2009. The Age of Empathy: Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society, New York: Three Rivers Press/Random House.
13. Duncan, L. G., Coatsworth, J. D. and Greenberg, M. T. 2009. A model of mindful parenting: implications for parent-child relationships and prevention research. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Reviews, 12(3): 255-270.
14. Feldman, R. 2007. Parent-infant synchrony and the construction of shared timing; physiological precursors, developmental outcomes, and risk conditions. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48(3-4): 329-354.
15. Feldman, R., Gordon, I., Schneiderman, I., Weisman, O. and Zagoory-Sharon, O. 2010. Natural variations in maternal and paternal care are associated with systematic changes in oxytocin following parent-infant contact. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 35(8): 1133-1141.
16. Fraley, R. C. 2002. Attachment stability from infancy to adulthood: Meta-analysis and dynamic modeling of developmental mechanisms. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 6(2): 123-151.
17. Frost, P. J. 2003. Toxic Emotions as Work: How Compassionate Managers Handle Pain and Conflict, Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press.
18. Goetz, J. L., Keltner, D. and Simon-Thomas, E. 2010. Compassion: An evolutionary analysis and empirical review. Psychological Bulletin, 136(3): 351-374.
19. Gonzalez, A., Lovic, V., Ward, G. R., Wainwright, P. E. and Fleming, A. S. 2001. Intergenerational effects of complete maternal deprivation and replacement stimulation on maternal behavior and emotionality in female rats. Developmental Psychobiology, 38(1): 11-32.
20. Hare, T. A., Camerer, C. F., Knoepfle, D. T. and Rangel, A. 2010. Value computations in ventral medial prefrontal cortex during charitable decision making incorporate input from regions involved in social cognition. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(2): 583-590.
21. Hein, G., Silani, G., Preuschoff, K., Batson, C. D. and Singer, T. 2010. Neural responses to ingroup and outgroup members' suffering predict individual differences in costly helping. Neuron, 68(1): 149-160.
22. Hoffman, K. T. 2006. Changing toddlers' and preschoolers' attachment classifications: The circle of security intervention. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 74(6) 1017-1026
23. Holzel, B. K., Ott, U., Gard, T., Hempel, H., Weygandt, M.Morgen, K. 2008. Investigation of mindfulness meditation practitioners with voxel-based morphometry. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3(1): 55-61.
24. Kaffman, A. and Meaney, M. J. 2007. Neurodevelopmental sequelae of postnatal maternal care in rodents: Clinical and research implications of molecular insights. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 48(3-4): 224-244.
25. Kim, P., Feldman, R., Mayes, L. C., Eicher, V., Thompson, N.Leckman, J. F. 2011. Breastfeeding, brain activation to own infant cry, and maternal sensitivity. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52(8): 907-915.
26. Kim, P., Leckman, J. F., Mayes, L. C., Feldman, R., Wang, X. and Swain, J. E. 2010. The plasticity of human maternal brain: Longitudinal changes in brain anatomy during the early postpartum period. Behavioral Neuroscience, 124(5): 695-700.
27. Kim, P., Leckman, J. F., Mayes, L. C., Newman, M. A., Feldman, R. and Swain, J. E. 2010. Perceived quality of maternal care in childhood and structure and function of mothers' brain. Developmental Science, 13(4): 662-673.
28. Korosi, A. and Baram, T. Z. 2010. Plasticity of the stress response early in life: Mechanisms and significance. Developmental Psychobiology, 52(7): 661-670.
29. Lazar, S. W., Kerr, C. E., Wasserman, R. H., Gray, J. R., Greve, D. N.Treadway, M. T. 2005. Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness. Neuroreport, 16(17): 1893-1897.
30. Lenzi, D., Trentini, C., Pantano, P., Macaluso, E., Iacoboni, M.Lenzi, G. L. 2009. Neural basis of maternal communication and emotional expression processing during infant preverbal stage. Cerebral Cortex, 19(5): 1124-1133.
31. Lorberbaum, J. P., Newman, J. D., Horwitz, A. R., Dubno, J. R., Lydiard, R. B. and Hamner, M. B. 2002. A potential role for thalamocingulate circuitry in human maternal behavior. Biological Psychiatry, 51: 431-445.
32. Lutz, A., Brefczynski-Lewis, J., Johnstone, T. and Davidson, R. J. 2008. Regulation of the neural circuitry of emotion by compassion meditation: effects of meditative expertise. PLoS One, 3(3): e1897
33. Marchini, G., Lagercrantz, H., Winberg, J. and Uvnas-Moberg, K. 1988. Fetal and maternal plasma levels of gastrin, somatostatin and oxytocin after vaginal delivery and elective cesarean section. Early Human Development, 18(1): 73-79.
34. Marvin, R., Cooper, G., Hoffman, K. and Powell, B. June 2000. "Attachment-based intervention with at-risk Head Start child-parent dyads". In Paper presented to the National Head Start Research Meetings June, Washington, D.C 2000
35. McDougall, W. 1908. An introduction to social psychology, London, UK: Methuen.
36. McGowan, P. O., Sasaki, A., D'Alessio, A. C., Dymov, S., Labonte, B.Szyf, M. 2009. Epigenetic regulation of the glucocorticoid receptor in human brain associates with childhood abuse. Nature Neuroscience, 12(3): 342-348.
37. Naber, F., van IJzendoorn, M. H., Deschamps, P., van Engeland, H. and Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J. 2010. Intranasal oxytocin increases fathers' observed responsiveness during play with their children: a double-blind within-subject experiment. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 35(10): 1583-1586.
38. NICHD Early Care Research Network. 2006. Infant-mother attachment classification: Risk and protection in relation to changing maternal caregiving quality. Developmental Psychology, 42(1): 38-58.
39. Nissen, E., Uvnas-Moberg, K., Svensson, K., Stock, S., Widstrom, A. M. and Winberg, J. 1996. Different patterns of oxytocin, prolactin but not cortisol release during breastfeeding in women delivered by caesarean section or by the vaginal route. Early Human Development, 45(1-2): 103-118.
40. Numan, M. 2006. Hypothalamic neural circuits regulating maternal responsiveness toward infants. Behavioral Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 5(4): 163-190.
41. Pincus, D., Kose, S., Arana, A., Johnson, K., Morgan, P. S.Borckardt, J. 2010. Inverse effects of oxytocin on attributing mental activity to others in depressed and healthy subjects: A double-blind placebo controlled FMRI study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 1: 134
42. Riem, M. M., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Pieper, S., Tops, M., Boksem, M. A.Vermeiren, R. R. 2011. Oxytocin modulates amygdala, insula, and inferior frontal gyrus responses to infant crying: A randomized controlled trial. Biological Psychiatry, 70: 291-297.
43. Sober, E. and Wilson, D. S. 1998. Unto others: The evolution and psychology of unselfish behavior, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
44. Strathearn, L., Fonagy, P., Amico, J. and Montague, P. R. 2009. Adult attachment predicts maternal brain and oxytocin response to infant cues. Neuropsychopharmacology, 34(13): 2655-2666.
45. Strathearn, L., Li, J., Fonagy, P. and Montague, P. R. 2008. What's in a smile? Maternal brain responses to infant facial cues. Pediatrics, 122(1): 40-51.
46. Swain, J. E. 2010. The human parental brain: In vivo neuroimaging. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacolical and Biological Psychiatry, 35: 1242-1254.
47. Swain, J. E. 2011. Becoming a parent-biobehavioral and brain science perspectives. Current Problems in Pediatric and Adolescent Health Care, 41(7): 192-196.
48. Swain, J. E., Kim, P. and Ho, S. S. 2011. Neuroendocrinology of parental response to baby-cry. Journal of Neuroendocrinology, 23(11): 1036-1041.
49. Swain, J. E., Tasgin, E., Mayes, L. C., Feldman, R., Constable, R. T. and Leckman, J. F. 2008. Maternal brain response to own baby-cry is affected by cesarean section delivery. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 49(10): 1042-1052.
50. Veenema, A. H. 2009. Early life stress, the development of aggression and neuroendocrine and neurobiological correlates: What can we learn from animal models?. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 30(4): 497-518.
51. Winnicott, D. W. 1960. The theory of the parent-infant relationship. International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 41: 585-595.