Brain responses to emotional infant faces in new mothers and nulliparous women

K Zhang, P Rigo, X Su, M Wang, Z Chen, G Esposito… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The experience of motherhood is one of the most salient events in a woman's life.
Motherhood is associated with a series of neurophysiological, psychological, and behavioral …

The importance of differentiating between cold and hot response inhibition in the parenting context, when examining associations with harsh parenting.

S Rousseau, TI Frenkel - Emotion, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Harsh parenting (HP) entails physical and verbal expressions of anger and aggression
toward children, usually observed as response to child negative emotionality. Abundant …

[HTML][HTML] Neural correlates of expectations-induced effects of caffeine intake on executive functions

CA Wicht, M De Pretto, M Mouthon, L Spierer - Cortex, 2022 - Elsevier
Placebo effects are defined as the beneficial subjective or behavioral outcomes of an
intervention that are not attributable to its inherent properties; Placebo effects thus follow …

Children with euthymic bipolar disorder during an emotional go/nogo task: Insights into the neural circuits of cognitive-emotional regulation

Q Xiao, Z Wu, Q Jiao, Y Zhong, Y Zhang… - Journal of Affective …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background: Pediatric bipolar disorder (PBD), manifested by alternating episodes of
depression and mania, is more likely to relapse than adult BD and develop into chronic BD …

Motherhood and theory of mind: increased activation in the posterior cingulate cortex and insulae

IS Plank, C Hindi Attar, SL Kunas… - Social Cognitive and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Despite growing evidence on effects of parenthood on social understanding, little is known
about the influence of parenthood on theory of mind (ToM), the capacity to infer mental and …

Increased activation in the bilateral anterior insulae in response to others in pain in mothers compared to non-mothers

IS Plank, C Hindi Attar, SL Kunas, I Dziobek… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Empathy allows us to share emotions and encourages us to help others. It is especially
important in the context of parenting where children's wellbeing is dependent on their …

Motherhood and Empathy: Increased Activation in Empathy Areas in Response to Other's in Pain

IS Plank, CH Attar, S Kunas, I Dziobek, F Bermpohl - 2021 - researchsquare.com
Empathy as the capacity to feel with others is a vital human response. It is especially
important in the context of parenting. To date, little is known about differences in empathy …

[HTML][HTML] Deliberate control over facial expressions in motherhood. Evidence from a Stroop-like task

G Recio, Y Surdzhiyska, S Bagherzadeh-Azbari… - Acta Psychologica, 2022 - Elsevier
The deliberate control of facial expressions is an important ability in human interactions, in
particular for mothers with prelinguistic infants. Because research on this topic is still scarce …

Emotion processing in mothers with bonding disorder during the first year postpartum: Results of an adapted fMRI emotional GoNoGo Task

M Eckstein, M Krauch, I Brenner, AL Zietlow, B Ditzen - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Maternal bonding refers to the unique emotional connection between a mother and her baby
that gradually develops during the pre-and postpartum period. However, 3-24% of women …

ERP study on the associations of peripheral oxytocin and prolactin with inhibitory processes involving emotional distraction

S Hayashi, A Tsuru, F Kishida, YK Kim… - Journal of physiological …, 2019 - Springer
Background Child maltreatment is a major health and social welfare problem, with serious
and longstanding consequences. Impulse control ability plays an important role in reducing …