Hostname: page-component-89b8bd64d-j4x9h Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-05-08T09:58:54.587Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Action-based synthesis of parental brain consciousness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 November 2016

James E. Swain ,
Ilinca Caluser ,
Zainab Mahmood ,
Madalyn Meldrim  and
Diana Morelen
James E. Swain
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, State University of New York–Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11777 jamesswa@med.umich.edu http://www.uofmhealth.org/profile/1678/james-edward-swain-md-phd-frcpc Departments of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 icaluser@umich.edu zainabma@umich.edu meldrim@med.umich.edu dmorelen@med.umich.edu Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520.
Ilinca Caluser
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 icaluser@umich.edu zainabma@umich.edu meldrim@med.umich.edu dmorelen@med.umich.edu
Zainab Mahmood
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 icaluser@umich.edu zainabma@umich.edu meldrim@med.umich.edu dmorelen@med.umich.edu
Madalyn Meldrim
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 icaluser@umich.edu zainabma@umich.edu meldrim@med.umich.edu dmorelen@med.umich.edu
Diana Morelen
Affiliation:
Departments of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 icaluser@umich.edu zainabma@umich.edu meldrim@med.umich.edu dmorelen@med.umich.edu
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Parenting consciousness, in line with passive frame theory, may be considered inseparable from action. With combined brain-imaging and cognitive-behavioral analyses, we are in the early phases of understanding how parental brain circuits regulate parental thoughts and behavior. Furthermore, work on parental consciousness confirms the importance of motor outputs and outlines related circuits that inform consciousness across generations.

Information

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e197
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Article purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Atzil, S., Hendler, T. & Feldman, R. (2011) Specifying the neurobiological basis of human attachment: Brain, hormones, and behavior in synchronous and intrusive mothers. Neuropsychopharmacology 36(13):2603–15. doi: 10.1038/npp.2011.172.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bornstein, M. H., Tamis-LeMonda, C. S., Tal, J., Ludemann, P., Toda, S., Rahn, C. W., Pêcheux, M. G., Azuma, H. & Vardi, D. (1992) Maternal responsiveness to infants in 3 societies – the United States, France, and Japan. Child Development 63(4):808–21.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bowlby, J. (1969) Attachment and loss, vol. 1. Attachment. Hogarth Press.Google Scholar
Bowlby, J. (1973) Attachment and loss, vol. 2. Separation: Anxiety and anger. Basic Books.Google Scholar
Brendel, B., Hertrich, I., Erb, M., Lindner, A., Riecker, A., Grodd, W. & Ackermann, H. (2010) The contribution of mesiofrontal cortex to the preparation and execution of repetitive syllable productions: An fMRI study. Neuroimage 50(3):1219–30. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.01.039.Google Scholar
Brown, S. L. & Brown, R. M. (2015) Connecting prosocial behavior to improved physical health: Contributions from the neurobiology of parenting. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 55:1–17. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.04.004.Google Scholar
Esposito, G., Nakazawa, J., Venuti, P. & Bornstein, M. H. (2013) Componential deconstruction of infant distress vocalizations via tree-based models: A study of cry in autism spectrum disorder and typical development. Research in Developmental Disabilities 34(9):2717–24. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2013.05.036.Google Scholar
Feldman, R. (2007) Parent-infant synchrony and the construction of shared timing: Physiological precursors, developmental outcomes, and risk conditions. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 48(3–4):329–54. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2006.01701.x.Google Scholar
Filimon, F., Nelson, J. D., Hagler, D. J. & Sereno, M. I. (2007) Human cortical representations for reaching: Mirror neurons for execution, observation, and imagery. Neuroimage 37(4):1315–28. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.06.008.Google Scholar
Fried, I., Katz, A., McCarthy, G., Sass, K. J., Williamson, P., Spencer, S. S. & Spencer, D. D. (1991) Functional organization of human supplementary motor cortex studied by electrical stimulation. The Journal of Neuroscience 11(11):3656–66.Google Scholar
Haggard, P. (2008) Human volition: Towards a neuroscience of will. Nature Reviews: Neuroscience 9(12):934–46. doi: 10.1038/nrn2497.Google Scholar
Hipwell, A. E., Guo, C., Phillips, M. L., Swain, J. E. & Moses-Kolko, E. L. (2015) Right frontoinsular cortex and subcortical activity to infant cry is associated with maternal mental state talk. The Journal of Neuroscience 35(37):12725–32. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1286-15.2015.Google Scholar
Ho, S. S., Konrath, S., Brown, S. & Swain, J. E. (2014) Empathy and stress related neural responses in maternal decision making. Frontiers in Neuroscience 8, article 152. (Online journal). doi:10.3389/fnins.2014.00152.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Horwitz, B., Amunts, K., Bhattacharyya, R., Patkin, D., Jeffries, K., Zilles, K. & Braun, A. R. (2003) Activation of Broca's area during the production of spoken and signed language: A combined cytoarchitectonic mapping and PET analysis. Neuropsychologia 41(14):1868–76.Google Scholar
Kim, P., Ho, S. S., Evans, G. W., Liberzon, I. & Swain, J. E. (2015) Childhood social inequalities influences neural processes in young adult caregiving. Developmental Psychobiology 57(8):948–60. doi: 10.1002/dev.21325.Google Scholar
Kim, P., Leckman, J. F., Mayes, L. C., Feldman, R., Wang, X. & Swain, J. E. (2010) The plasticity of human maternal brain: Longitudinal changes in brain anatomy during the early postpartum period. Behavioral Neuroscience 124(5):695–700.Google Scholar
Kim, P., Rigo, P., Mayes, L. C., Feldman, R., Leckman, J. F. & Swain, J. E. (2014) Neural plasticity in fathers of human infants. Social Neuroscience 9(5):522–35. doi: 10.1080/17470919.2014.933713.Google Scholar
Kim, P., Strathearn, L. & Swain, J. E. (2016) The maternal brain and its plasticity in humans. Hormones and Behavior 77:113–23. (Special Issue: Parental Care). doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2015.08.001.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lenzi, D., Trentini, C., Pantano, P., Macaluso, E., Iacoboni, M., Lenzi, G. L. & Ammaniti, M. (2009) Neural basis of maternal communication and emotional expression processing during infant preverbal stage. Cerebral Cortex 19(5):1124–33. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhn153.Google Scholar
Moses-Kolko, E. L., Horner, M. S., Phillips, M. L., Hipwell, A. E. & Swain, J. E. (2014) In search of neural endophenotypes of postpartum psychopathology and disrupted maternal caregiving. Journal of Neuroendocrinology 26(10):665–84. doi: 10.1111/jne.12183.Google Scholar
Nachev, P., Kennard, C. & Husain, M. (2008) Functional role of the supplementary and pre-supplementary motor areas. Nature Reviews: Neuroscience 9(11):856–69. doi: 10.1038/nrn2478.Google Scholar
Preston, S. D. (2013) The origins of altruism in offspring care. Psychological Bulletin 139(6):1305–41. doi: 10.1037/a0031755.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Swain, J. E. (2007) Critical developmental periods of increased plasticity program ritualized behavior. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 29(3):242–43.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Swain, J. E., Dayton, C. J., Kim, P., Tolman, R. M. & Volling, B. L. (2014a) Progress on the paternal brain: Theory, animal models, human brain research, and mental health implications. Infant Mental Health Journal 35(5):394–408. doi: 10.1002/imhj.21471.Google Scholar
Swain, J. E., Kim, P., Spicer, J., Ho, S. S., Dayton, C. J., Elmadih, A. & Abel, K. M. (2014b) Approaching the biology of human parental attachment: Brain imaging, oxytocin and coordinated assessments of mothers and fathers. Brain Research 1580:78–101. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2014.03.007.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Swain, J. E., Konrath, S., Brown, S. L., Finegood, E. D., Akce, L. B., Dayton, C. J. & Ho, S. S. (2012) Parenting and beyond: Common neurocircuits underlying parental and altruistic caregiving. Parenting, Science and Practice 12(2–3):115–23. doi: 10.1080/15295192.2012.680409.Google Scholar
Swain, J. E., Mayes, L. C. & Leckman, J. F. (2004) The development of parent-infant attachment through dynamic and interactive signaling loops of care and cry. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27(4):472–73.Google Scholar