Neurobiology of mother-infant interactions: experience and central nervous system plasticity across development and generations

被引:295
作者
Fleming, AS [1 ]
O'Day, DH
Kraemer, GW
机构
[1] Univ Toronto, Dept Psychol, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada
[2] Univ Toronto, Dept Zool, Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6, Canada
[3] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Kinesiol, Harlow Primate Lab, Madison, WI 53715 USA
基金
英国医学研究理事会;
关键词
maternal behavior; brain plasticity; development; maternal experience; olfaction; somatosensation; hormones; MPOA; amygdala; c-fos; signal transduction; PKC; CaMBPs; maternal deprivation; rat; monkeys; humans;
D O I
10.1016/S0149-7634(99)00011-1
中图分类号
B84 [心理学]; C [社会科学总论]; Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
03 ; 0303 ; 030303 ; 04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
The optimal coordination between the new mammalian mother and her young involves a sequence of behaviors on the part of each that ensures that the young will be adequately cared for and show healthy physical, emotional, and social development. This coordination is accomplished by each member of the relationship having the appropriate sensitivities and responses to cues that characterize the other. Among many mammalian species, new mothers are attracted to their infants' odors and some recognize them based on their odors; they also respond to their infants' vocalizations, thermal properties, and touch qualities. Together these cues ensure that the mother will nurse and protect the offspring and provide them with the appropriate physical and stimulus environment in which to develop. The young. in rum, orient to the mother and show a suckling pattern that reflects a sensitivity to the mothers odor, touch, and temperature characteristics. This article explores the sensory, endocrine, and neural mechanisms that underlie this early mother-young relationship, from the perspective of, first, the mother and, then, the young, noting the parallels between them. It emphasizes the importance of learning and plasticity in the formation and maintenance of the mother-young relationship and mediation of these experience effects by the brain and its neurochemistry. Finally, it discusses ways in which the infants' early experiences with their mothers (or the absence of these experiences) may come to influence how they respond to their own infants when they grow up, providing a psychobiological mechanism for the inter-generational transmission of parenting styles and responsiveness. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:673 / 685
页数:13
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