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Adult attachment predicts maternal brain and oxytocin response to infant cues.
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Infant cues, such as smiling or crying facial expressions, are powerful motivators of human maternal behavior, activating dopamine-associated brain reward circuits. Oxytocin, a neurohormone of attachment, promotes maternal care in animals, although its role in human maternal behavior is unclear. We examined 30 first-time new mothers to test whether differences in attachment, based on the Adult Attachment Interview, were related to brain reward and peripheral oxytocin response to infant cues. On viewing their own infant's smiling and crying faces during functional MRI scanning, mothers with secure attachment showed greater activation of brain reward regions, including the ventral striatum, and the oxytocin-associated hypothalamus/pituitary region. Peripheral oxytocin response to infant contact at 7 months was also significantly higher in secure mothers, and was positively correlated with brain activation in both regions. Insecure/dismissing mothers showed greater insular activation in response to their own infant's sad faces. These results suggest that individual differences in maternal attachment may be linked with development of the dopaminergic and oxytocinergic neuroendocrine systems.
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“Our particular focus will be on the brain-level attachment system [30], maintained (in large part) by the neuropeptides oxytocin and vasopressin [31, 32].”
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“Mothers with a secure attachment style showed greater activation in brain reward regions of the ventral striatum and in the oxytocin-associated hypothalamus/pituitary region compared to mothers with an insecure adult attachment style.”
From The evolved nest, oxytocin functioning, and prosocial development (2023) · cites this paper as Strathearn et al. (2009)
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“Plasma oxytocin was also higher in secure mothers.”
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“Oxytocin plays a role in both relaxation and secure attachment physiology and is also associated with greater pro-social behaviors (e.g., improved face expression recognition, enhanced encoding of positive social memories; Isgett, Algoe, Boulton, Way, & Fredrickson, 2016; Mascaro et al, 2015; Strathearn, Fonagy, Amico, & Montague, 2009).”
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“Differences in adult attachment styles have been associated with modulation of endogenous oxytocin levels.”
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“New mothers who viewed their own 11-month infant smiling and crying showed brain activation differences based upon adult attachment type (Strathearn et al., 2009).”
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“This may be similar to the way in which exposure to baby faces is associated with maternal hypothalamus activation that correlates with serum OT (43) to contribute to increased reward circuitry and decrease negative social assessment circuits in maternal brains (44).”
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“Neural activity within hypothalamus was engaged in response to mothers viewing their own child’s face versus an unknown child’s face and this activity was significantly correlated with plasma oxytocin responses induced by physical interaction with their baby (Strathearn et al., 2009).”
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“Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigms have shown recruitment of the amygdala, ventral striatum, VTA/substantia nigra as well as areas within the frontal cortex and insula in response to mothers seeing photographs of their own children versus other peoples children (Bartels and Zeki, 2004, Leibenluft et al., 2004, Strathearn et al., 2009, Strathearn et al., 2008, but see Wittfoth-S”
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“Strathearn and colleagues demonstrated that new mothers classified as having a secure attachment style exhibited heightened BOLD activation within the orbitofrontal cortex, medial prefrontal cortex, ventral striatum and hypothalamus while viewing pictures of their own infants relative to mothers displaying insecure/dismissing attachment styles (Strathearn et al., 2009).”
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“They found that in response to their own infant’s smiling and crying faces during fMRI, mothers with secure attachment showed greater activation of brain reward regions, including the ventral striatum, and the oxytocin-associated hypothalamus/pituitary region.”
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“Peripheral oxytocin responses to infant contact provocations at 7 months were also significantly higher in secure mothers, and positively correlated with brain activation in both regions.”
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“Insecure/dismissing mothers showed greater insular activation in response to their own infant’s sad faces.”
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“In response to their own infant’s smiling and crying faces during fMRI, mothers with secure attachment showed greater activation of brain reward regions, including ventral striatum, and oxytocin-rich hypothalamic/pituitary regions.”
From Approaching the biology of human parental attachment: Brain imaging, oxytocin and coordinated assessments of mothers and fathers (2014) · cites this paper as Strathearn et al., 2009
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“higher levels of plasma OT were reported following mother-infant physical interaction among mothers reporting secure attachment patterns with their own mothers compared to those with insecure attachment patterns.”
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“While OT can facilitate appetitive approach behaviors, such as interpersonal trust and generosity (Kosfeld et al., 2005; Zak et al., 2007), pair bonding and maternal behavior (Strathearn et al., 2009; Scheele et al., 2012) and emotional empathy and face recognition (Hurlemann et al., 2010; Marsh et al., 2010)”
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“and some previous findings that OT-induced alterations on human social behavior are associated with increased activity in the striatum and AI (Baumgartner et al., 2008; Strathearn et al., 2009; Striepens et al., 2011; Yao et al., 2018).”
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“In addition to this convergence with previous neuroimaging findings on positive affect and reward, activations in prefrontal cortex and ventral striatum have been related more specifically to maternal affiliation (Strathearn et al., 2009), as well as to maternal and romantic love (Bartels and Zeki, 2004).”
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- Authors
- Strathearn, L., Fonagy, P., Amico, J., & Montague, P. R.
- Affiliations
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Corresponding author
- Strathearn, Lane
- Venue
- Neuropsychopharmacology
- Published
- 2009-08-26
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 13
- Pages
- 2655-2666
- ISSN
- 0893-133X (ISSN-L)
- 1740-634X
- PMC
- PMC3041266
- OpenAlex
- W2163081513
- Cited by
- 773
- References
- 76
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- FWCI
- 53.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
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- Funders
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (DA 11723, R01DA011723)
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (R01NS045790, NS045790)
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- National Center for Research Resources (MO1-RR-00188, M01RR000188)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (K12HD041648, K23HD043097)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Infant Health and Development
- Keywords
- adult attachment, maternal behavior, oxytocin, brain reward, ventral striatum, insula, infant facial expressions, insecure attachment, dopamine, neuroendocrine system, primiparous women
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Brain, Brain Mapping, Cues, Epinephrine, Facial Expression, Female, Humans, Hydrocortisone, Infant, Mother-Child Relations, Mothers, Norepinephrine, Object Attachment, Oxytocin, Reward
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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