The Thursday Professional Lecture Series

Nature’s Family Health Plan: Neurobiological Benefits in Primate and Rodent Parental Models

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As the parental brain extends its attention from self to offspring, neural and physiological adaptations enhance emotional resilience and cognitive flexibility. Stress responsivity – associated with susceptibility to psychiatric illness and chronic disease – is dampened in males from both bi-parental and uni-parental primate models (e.g. owl monkeys and long-tailed macaques, respectively). Recent investigation of […]