TY - JOUR
T1 - Parenting and plasticity
AU - Leuner, Benedetta
AU - Glasper, Erica R.
AU - Gould, Elizabeth
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (MH54970 to E.G. and MH084148 to B.L), a NARSAD Young Investigator Award (B.L.) and a Ruth L. Kirschstein postdoctoral NRSA fellowship from the National Institute on Aging (E.R.G.).
PY - 2010/10
Y1 - 2010/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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U2 - 10.1016/j.tins.2010.07.003
DO - 10.1016/j.tins.2010.07.003
M3 - Review article
C2 - 20832872
AN - SCOPUS:77957021222
SN - 0166-2236
VL - 33
SP - 465
EP - 473
JO - Trends in Neurosciences
JF - Trends in Neurosciences
IS - 10
ER -