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Parenting and plasticity

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Leuner, Benedetta, Glasper, Erica R., Gould, Elizabeth·2010·Trends in Neurosciences

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As any new parent knows, having a baby provides opportunities for enrichment, learning and stress - experiences known to change the adult brain. Yet surprisingly little is known about the effects of maternal experience, and even less about the effects of paternal experience, on neural circuitry not directly involved in parenting. Here we discuss how caregiving and the accompanying experiential and hormonal changes influence the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, brain regions involved in cognition and mood regulation. A better understanding of how parenting impacts the brain is likely to help in devising strategies for treating parental depression, a condition that can have serious cognitive and mental health consequences for children.

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Authors: Leuner, B., Glasper, E. R., & Gould, E.
Affiliations: Princeton University (US)
Corresponding author: Gould, Elizabeth
ORCID: Leuner, Benedetta
Glasper, Erica R.
Gould, Elizabeth
Venue: Trends in Neurosciences
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2010-10
Volume: 33
Issue: 10
Pages: 465-473
ISSN: 0166-2236 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.tins.2010.07.003
PMC: PMC3076301
OpenAlex: W2102804349
Cited by: 159
References: 117
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FWCI: 0.59
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations: Trends in Neurosciences (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders: National Institutes of Health (5r01mh054970-03)
National Institute on Aging (F32AG033461)
National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH059740, MH084148, MH-54970, R00MH084148, K99MH084148)
Topics: Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
Keywords: parenting, neuroplasticity, maternal experience, fathers' experiences, caregiving, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, parental depression, mood regulation, cognitive development, neuroendocrine changes
MeSH terms: Adult, Affect, Brain, Cognition, Depression, Hippocampus, Hormones, Humans, Parents, Stress, Psychological, Parenting, Prefrontal Cortex

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