Research on the inter-relationship between drug abuse and social stress has primarily
focused on the role of stress exposure during adulthood and more recently, adolescence …

Effective coordination of the biological stress response is integral for the behavioural well‐
being of an organism. Stress reactivity is coordinated by an interplay of the neuroendocrine …

The Parental Brain: Mechanisms, Development, and Evolution presents a comprehensive
analysis of how the brain regulates parental behavior in nonhuman animals and in humans …

In both humans and animals, stress experienced during gestation is associated with
physiological changes and disruptions in emotional function and cognitive ability in …

A wealth of data from the last fifty years documents the potency of early life experiences
including maternal care on developing offspring. A majority of this research has focused on …

Contemporary trends in obesity mean that research into whether unbalanced diets could
impact on behavioural traits became increasingly important. The timing of exposure to …

The non-genomic transmission of maternal behavior from one generation to the next
illustrates the pervasive influence of maternal care on offspring development and the high …

Maternal behavior has a substantial impact on the behavioral, endocrine, and neural
development of the pups. This study investigated the effect of altering the neonatal …

Maternal malnutrition during lactation programmes for overweight and central leptin
resistance in adulthood. The inhibition of lactation by maternal treatment with bromocriptine …

There is extensive evidence in rats that prenatal environmental stress (PES) exposure and
early postnatal altered maternal care, as a consequence of stress during gestation, can …