How motherhood behavior is influenced by alterations in brain function

Monday, October 24, 2011 - 15:31 in Psychology & Sociology

Instinctive mothering behavior towards care of newborns has long been recognized as a phenomenon in humans and animals, but now research has shown that motherhood is associated with the acquisition of a host of new behaviors that are driven, at least in part, by alterations in brain function.

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