Challenges in Characterizing the “Mommy Brain”

IF 2.3 4区心理学 Q2 FAMILY STUDIES

Parenting-Science and Practice Pub Date : 2019-02-01 DOI:10.1080/15295192.2019.1556007

Heidemarie K. Laurent

引用次数: 6

Abstract

SYNOPSIS Parental neuroimaging promises to shed light on how humans adapt to the demands of parenthood, but this research is not without challenges. A study in this issue reports differences between mothers’ and non-mothers’ default mode network activation during a goal-oriented task accompanied by human vocalizations. However, they did not find hypothesized differences in response specifically to infant cry, and the reach of conclusions that can be made based on these findings is limited. In my commentary, I present ideas for ways this work could be extended to make more definitive statements about the nature and potential benefits of parental brain adaptations.

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描述“妈咪大脑”的挑战

父母神经成像有望揭示人类如何适应为人父母的要求，但这项研究并非没有挑战。这期杂志的一项研究报告了在伴随人类发声的目标导向任务中，母亲和非母亲的默认模式网络激活的差异。然而，他们并没有发现对婴儿哭声反应的假设差异，并且基于这些发现可以得出的结论是有限的。在我的评论中，我提出了一些想法，这些想法可以扩展这项工作，以对父母大脑适应的本质和潜在好处做出更明确的陈述。

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5.50

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4.50%

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期刊介绍： Parenting: Science and Practice strives to promote the exchange of empirical findings, theoretical perspectives, and methodological approaches from all disciplines that help to define and advance theory, research, and practice in parenting, caregiving, and childrearing broadly construed. "Parenting" is interpreted to include biological parents and grandparents, adoptive parents, nonparental caregivers, and others, including infrahuman parents. Articles on parenting itself, antecedents of parenting, parenting effects on parents and on children, the multiple contexts of parenting, and parenting interventions and education are all welcome. The journal brings parenting to science and science to parenting.