Maternal status regulates cortical responses to the body odor of newborns

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Lundström, Johan N ^a,b,c   Mathe, Annegret ^d   Schaal, Benoist ^d,e   Frasnelli, Johannes ^f   Nitzsche, Katharina ^d   Gerber, Johannes ^d   Hummel, Thomas ^d,e  

^a MONELL CHEMICAL SENSES CENTER   (United States)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body odor; Bonding; FMRI; Neonatal; Reward

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885336636     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00597     Document Type: Article

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