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MIB guest talk: Katherine Young

Dr Katherine Young from UCLA visits MIB and gives talk about the neural basis of responsive caregiving behavior.

15.08.2016 | Hella Kastbjerg

Dato fre 23 sep
Tid 13:00 15:00
Sted Meeting room 5th floor, Building 10G, Aarhus University Hospital, Nørrebrogade

Title:

The neural basis of responsive caregiving  behaviour: temporal dynamics and experience-dependent plasticity in the parental brain.

Abstract:

With their cute faces and piercing cries, infants hold the power to capture our attention and prompt us to engage in nurturing behaviours. The ability to provide responsive caregiving is an essential foundation of the parent-infant relationship and plays a key role in a child’s development. But how do our brains support this range of rapid, effortful and sensitive responses? Neuroimaging studies have demonstrated the key circuitry involved, the so-called ‘parental brain’. This talk will focus on recent findings highlighting rapid temporal dynamics within the parental brain. It will highlight a specific role for the orbitofrontal cortex in supporting rapid orienting responses to infant cues thought to be universal across all adults, independent of parenthood. In addition, emerging findings demonstrating plasticity in the parental brain through the experience of caregiving will be discussed. 

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