The adaptive human parental brain: implications for children's social development

• Parental brain responses to own and unknown children’s emotional facial expressions: An fMRI study

  2026 Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience article Neuroscience Face Recognition and Perception Open access

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• Maternal brain alterations based on neurotransmitter and hormone receptor distributions over six months postpartum

  2026 Translational Psychiatry article Psychology Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior Open access

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• The paternal brain: longitudinal insights into structural and functional plasticity and attachment over 24 weeks postpartum

  2026 Translational Psychiatry article Psychology Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior Open access

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• Human caregiving under safety and threat: The role of empathy and its endocrine regulation

  2026 Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews article Psychology Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior Open access

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• Temporal dissociation between local and global functional adaptations of the maternal brain to childbirth: a longitudinal assessment

  2024 Neuropsychopharmacology article Neuroscience Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Open access

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• Interpersonal neural synchrony and mental disorders: unlocking potential pathways for clinical interventions

  2024 Frontiers in Neuroscience article Psychology Action Observation and Synchronization Open access

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• Interpersonal Neural Synchrony and Mental Disorders: Unlocking Potential Pathways for Clinical Interventions

  2023 preprint Psychology Action Observation and Synchronization Open access

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• Neural and Affective Responses to Prolonged Eye Contact with One's Own Adolescent Child and Unfamiliar Others

  2022 NeuroImage article Neuroscience Face Recognition and Perception Open access

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• Less can be more: Fine tuning the maternal brain

  2021 Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews article Psychology Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior Open access

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• Fathers’ involvement in early childcare is associated with amygdala resting-state connectivity

  2021 Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience article Neuroscience Functional Brain Connectivity Studies Open access

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• Neural signatures of parental empathic responses to imagined suffering of their adolescent child

  2021 NeuroImage article Psychology Action Observation and Synchronization Open access

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• Do Pregnancy-Induced Brain Changes Reverse? The Brain of a Mother Six Years after Parturition

  2021 Brain Sciences article Medicine Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum Open access

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• Vicarious praise and pain: parental neural responses to social feedback about their adolescent child

  2021 Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience article Neuroscience Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies Open access

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• Exploring the hormonal and neural correlates of paternal protective behavior to their infants

  2020 Developmental Psychobiology article Psychology Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior Open access

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• A mother–child intervention program for adolescent mothers: Results from a randomized controlled trial (the TeeMo study)

  2020 Development and Psychopathology article Psychology Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

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• Pictures of preterm infants elicit increased affective responses and reduced reward-motivation or perspective taking in the maternal brain

  2020 Behavioural Brain Research article Medicine Infant Development and Preterm Care Open access

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• What a cute baby! Preliminary evidence from a fMRI study for the association between mothers’ neural responses to infant faces and activation of the parental care system

  2020 Neuropsychologia article Neuroscience Face Recognition and Perception Open access

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• Infant brain responses to live face-to-face interaction with their mothers: Combining functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) with a modified still-face paradigm

  2020 Infant Behavior and Development article Medicine Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques

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• The Paternal Transition Entails Neuroanatomic Adaptations that are Associated with the Father’s Brain Response to his Infant Cues

  2020 Cerebral Cortex Communications article Psychology Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior Open access

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