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Mothering begets mothering The transmission of behavior and its neurobiology across generations

Abstract

Early experiences exert their effects on adult parental behavior in part by altering the development of neurobiological mechanisms that initiate or support the initiation and sustenance of adult parental behavior. The effects of parental behavior on sensory, perceptual and emotional mechanisms in offspring constitute an experientially based mechanism by which neurobiological factors regulating behavior can be transferred from generation to …

Authors

Fleming AS; Kraemer GW; Gonzalez A; Lovic V; Rees S; Melo A

Journal

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, Vol. 73, No. 1, pp. 61–75

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

August 2002

DOI

10.1016/s0091-3057(02)00793-1

ISSN

0091-3057