The paternal transition entails neuroanatomic adaptations that are associated with the father's brain response to his infant cues
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The transition into fatherhood is a life-changing event that requires substantial psychological adaptations. In families that include a father figure, sensitive paternal behavior has been shown to positively impact the infant’s development. Yet, studies exploring the neuroanatomic adaptations of men in their transition into fatherhood are scarce. The present study used surface-based methods to reanalyze a previously published prospective magnetic resonance imaging dataset comprised of 20 first-time fathers (preconception-to-postpartum) and 17 childless men. We tested if the transition into fatherhood entailed changes in cortical volume, thickness, and area and whether these changes were related to 2 indicators of paternal experience. Specifically, we tested if such changes were associated with (1) the baby’s age and/or (2) the fathers’ brain activity in response to pictures of their babies compared with an unknown baby. Results indicated that first-time fathers exhibited a significant reduction in cortical volume and thickness of the precuneus. Moreover, higher volume reduction and cortical thinning were associated with stronger brain responses to pictures of their own baby in parental brain regions. This is the first study showing preconception-to-postpartum neuroanatomical adaptations in first-time fathers associated with the father’s brain response to cues of his infant.
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In studies comparing men who are fathers and not fathers, the preconception-to-postpartum period is marked by reductions in cortical volume and thickness.
“In studies comparing men who are fathers and not fathers, the preconception-to-postpartum period also is marked by reductions in cortical volume and thickness.93”
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- Authors
- Paternina-Die, M., Martínez-García, M., Pretus, C., Hoekzema, E., Barba-Müller, E., Martín de Blas, D., Pozzobon, C., Ballesteros, A., Vilarroya, Ó., Desco, M., & Carmona, S.
- Affiliations
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón (ES)
- Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, 28007 Madrid, Spain
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES)
- Leiden University (NL)
- Institute of Mental Health Vidal i Barraquer, Ramon Llull University, 08022 Barcelona, Spain
- Instituto Valenciano de Infertilidad, 20145 Milan, Italy
- Valencian Infertility Institute (ES)
- Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research (ES)
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Salud Mental (ES)
- Corresponding author
- Vilarroya, Óscar
- Carmona, Susanna
- ORCID
- Venue
- Cerebral Cortex Communications
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2020
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
- 1
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- tgaa082-tgaa082
- ISSN
- 2632-7376 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC8152902
- OpenAlex
- W3095864864
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- 29
- References
- 56
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- Funders
- Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades and the Pro CNIC Foundation (SEV-2015-0505)
- “la Caixa” Foundation (LCF/PR/HR19/52160001)
- European Social Fund
- Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Instituto de Salud Carlos III (CP16/00096, FI18/00255)
- European Union’s Horizon 2020 (801091)
- European Regional Development Fund
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III projects (PI17/00064, CP16/00096)
- Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades project (RTI2018-093952-B-100)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
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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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