ReviewNeural basis of maternal behavior in the rat
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2022, Neuroscience and Biobehavioral ReviewsCitation Excerpt :These steroids act on a network of hormone-sensitive brain regions that have been identified as a “maternal caregiving network” (Bridges, 2015). In particular, it has been well-established that hormone action in the MPOA and the adjoining ventral BNST (BNSTv) is critical for the onset of maternal behavior in rodents (Kohl et al., 2018, 2017; Lonstein et al., 2015; Numan, 1988). Here, estradiol seems to play a facilitatory role, whereas progesterone plays an inhibitory role (Fahrbach and Pfaff, 1986; Sheehan and Numan, 2002).
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2021, Behavioural Brain ResearchCitation Excerpt :Here we hypothesized that the reduced expression of c-Fos in the OB might signal that the plastic changes in the olfactory network described in laboratory mice upon exposure to relevant olfactory cues [14,34,35] might occur to a minimal extent in BTBR. Notwithstanding the reduced OB activation observed in BTBR mice, the discontinuous performance of pup-oriented behaviors is sufficient to elicit c-Fos expression in the MPOA, the most important brain areas in regulation of maternal responsiveness [17,36–38], as well as in the PVN. Notably, expression of Fos protein is induced in the MPOA neurons during parental behavior in rodents [14], and c-Fos expression in response to a pup-associated cue is elevated in MPOA neurons even in the absence of pups [11,39].
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2017, NeuronCitation Excerpt :To identify regions selective for empathic care, we identified those that had significantly more positive weights for the empathic care marker than for the distress marker in the multivariate patterns and were significantly positively correlated with empathic care in univariate voxel-by-voxel analyses, both when controlling and not controlling for distress (STAR Methods). This conjunction revealed that empathic care was preferentially related to activity in the medial OFC (mOFC), vmPFC, VS, and septal area (Figures 3A and 4; Table S2), consistent with prior associations of these regions with positive empathic affect, prosocial behavior, and affiliative emotion and behavior (Bredewold et al., 2015; Genevsky and Knutson, 2015; Genevsky et al., 2013; Harbaugh et al., 2007; Hare et al., 2010; Inagaki and Eisenberger, 2012; Klimecki et al., 2012, 2014; Krueger et al., 2007; Moll et al., 2006, 2012, 2014; Morelli et al., 2015; Numan, 1988; Zaki and Mitchell, 2011). Empathic care also was associated with precuneus/posterior cingulate activity, a key node of the mentalizing system often active in response to observing emotional suffering (Bruneau et al., 2012a, 2012b, 2013; Immordino-Yang et al., 2009; Masten et al., 2011; Meyer et al., 2013; Morelli et al., 2014).