Ten to twenty percent of postpartum women experience anxiety or depressive disorders,
which can have detrimental effects on the mother, child, and family. Little is known about the …

Oxytocin-and vasopressin-related systems are present in invertebrate and vertebrate
bilaterian animals, including humans, and exhibit conserved neuroanatomical and …

Accumulating behavioral and neurophysiological studies support the idea of infantile (cute)
faces as highly biologically relevant stimuli rapidly and unconsciously capturing attention …

Psychology is crucial for understanding human history. When aggregated, changes in the
psychology of individuals–in the intensity of social trust, parental care, or intellectual …

Previous work suggests that infant cry perception is supported by an evolutionary old neural
network consisting of the auditory system, the thalamocingulate circuit, the frontoinsular …

Parents lay the foundation for their children's socio‐emotional experiences by sensitively
responding to their needs. The hormonal and neurobiological changes that occur during the …

The deep structural diversity of languages suggests that our language capacities are not
based on any single template but rather on an underlying ability and motivation for infants to …

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in 26 right-handed students while they
detected pictures of animals intermixed with those of familiar objects, faces and faces-in …

Background The morphology of dogs can provide information about their predisposition to
some disorders. For example, larger breeds are predisposed to hip dysplasia and many …

Infants and children are the often-ignored heroes when it comes to understanding human
evolution. Evolutionary pressures acted upon the young of our ancestors more powerfully …