Common and divergent psychobiological mechanisms underlying maternal behaviors in non-human and human mammals

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 73, Issue , 2015, Pages 156-185

  Lonstein, Joseph S ^a,c   Lévy, Frédéric ^a   Fleming, Alison S ^b,c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Audition; Depression; Executive function; Hormones; Learning; Maternal behavior; Motivation; Olfaction; Somatosensation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTROGEN; OXYTOCIN; PROGESTERONE; PROLACTIN; HORMONE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANXIETY; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONALITY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MOTHER; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PSYCHOBIOLOGY; REVIEW; REWARD; SHEEP; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; FEMALE; MAMMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RAT; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHERS; RATS; REPRODUCTION; SHEEP;

EID: 84938054983     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.06.011     Document Type: Review

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