Studies
led by Eyal Abraham of Bar-Ilan University to investigate parenting behaviors revealed that parenting implemented a global ‘parental caregiving’ neural network
that was mainly consistent across parents. fMRI showed parenting integrated the
functioning of two systems: the emotional processing network (including
subcortical and paralimbic structures associated with vigilance, salience,
reward, and motivation), and the mentalizing network (involving
frontopolar-medial-prefrontal and temporo-parietal circuits implicated in
social understanding and cognitive empathy). These two networks work together
to imbue infant care with emotional salience, attune with the infant state, and
plan adequate parenting. fMRI
results showed that males and females used
similar brain networks when they were parenting but their brains showed differing
patterns of activation.
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