Paola Rigo

TL;DR: It is shown that greater parenting stress is associated with less brain-to-brain synchrony in the medial left cluster of the prefrontal cortex when mother and child engage in a typical dyadic task of watching animation videos together.

TL;DR: Assessments of five types of behavioral responses in new mothers to their own infants’ cries with neurobiological responses in experienced mothers and inexperienced nonmothers to infant cries and other emotional and control sounds identified specific, common, and automatic caregiving reactions in mothers to infant vocal expressions of distress and point to their putative Neurobiological bases.

TL;DR: The findings provide evidence for neural plasticity in fathers’ brains and discuss the distinct patterns of associations among neural changes, postpartum mood symptoms, and parenting behaviors among fathers.

TL;DR: Results show sex-dependent modulation of brain responses to infant requests to be fed, and specifically, they indicate that women interrupt mind wandering when exposed to the sounds of infant hunger cries, whereas men carry on without interruption.