Review
Neurosciences
Sofia Carozza, Victoria Leong
Summary: Affectionate touch plays a crucial role in infant development, impacting a wide range of psychosocial and neurophysiological aspects. It tunes the development of infant somatosensory, autonomic, and immune systems, while also contributing to the establishment of social affiliative bonds. The effects of touch-related bonding are mainly mediated by the oxytocin system, with additional activations of mesocorticolimbic dopamine and endogenous opioid systems aiding in social cognitive processes.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Andrea Bizzego, Giulio Gabrieli, Atiqah Azhari, Mengyu Lim, Gianluca Esposito
Summary: This paper presents a dataset of fNIRS recordings from mother-child and father-child dyads, allowing for the investigation of brain-to-brain synchrony and the development of new fNIRS analysis techniques. The dataset provides valuable insights into prefrontal cortical activity during passive viewing and interactive tasks in participants of different ages.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Analia Marzoratti, Megan E. Liu, Kathleen M. Krol, Gus R. Sjobeck, Daniel J. Lipscomb, Tara L. Hofkens, Steven M. Boker, Kevin A. Pelphrey, Jessica J. Connelly, Tanya M. Evans
Summary: This study found that interpersonal neural synchrony (INS) is prevalent during child-parent interactions and is associated with other biological markers of social functioning. Specifically, higher INS during competition was related to lower child oxytocin receptor gene methylation (OXTRm), while greater behavioral attunement during competition and cooperation was associated with higher parent OXTRm. Children's self perceived communication skill showed opposite associations with parent and child OXTRm.
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Biology
Sayaka Kidby, Dave Neale, Sam Wass, Victoria Leong
Summary: This study examined the differences in affect synchrony between positive and negative affect during parent-infant object play. The results showed that positive affect synchrony increased during social play, while negative affect synchrony did not significantly change. The findings suggest that maternal active engagement in playful interaction with the infant can enhance and prolong infant positive affect and parent-infant positive affect synchrony.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Elise Turk, Yaara Endevelt-Shapira, Ruth Feldman, Marion I. van den Heuvel, Jonathan Levy
Summary: This article introduces the application and challenges of parent-infant EEG, providing a detailed guide on how to implement and run parent-infant EEG paradigms, including recommendations for data processing and interpretation of results.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Developmental Biology
Shefaly Shorey, Alpana Rajesh Asurlekar, Jing Shi Chua, Lina Hsiu Kim Lim
Summary: Oxytocin (OT) plays a crucial role in the formation of early parent-child relationships and bonding, which is essential for the social, cognitive, and emotional development of children. This systematic review aims to consolidate the available evidence on the associations between parental OT levels and parenting behavior and bonding in the past 20 years. After conducting a systematic search in five databases, 33 studies were included. The findings, presented narratively, suggest that parental OT levels are positively related to parental touch, gaze, affect synchrony, and observer-coded parent-infant bonding. No gender difference in OT levels was observed between fathers and mothers, but OT strengthens affectionate parenting in mothers and stimulatory parenting in fathers. Child OT levels were also positively associated with parental OT levels. Encouraging positive touch and interactive play between parents and children could enhance parent-child relationships.
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Family Studies
Megan M. Julian, Maria Muzik, Jennifer M. Jester, Jonathan Handelzalts, Nora Erickson, Marissa Stringer, Holly Brophy-Herb, Julie Ribaudo, Alissa Huth-Bocks, Jamie Lawler, Ann Stacks, Katherine L. Rosenblum
Summary: Participation in the Michigan Model of IMH-HV is associated with reductions in both harsh parenting and child abuse potential.
CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Megumi Kitagawa, Sayaka Iwamoto, Tomotaka Umemura, Shimpei Kudo, Miyuki Kazui, Hiromi Matsuura, Judi Mesman
Summary: The pilot study found that the Circle of Security Parenting program was effective in reducing parenting stress in the child domain and improving child attachment quality over time. Additional video reviews also helped increase the number of children classified as secure after 6 months.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Neurosciences
Yi Liu, Jiaxin Li, Qi Wang, Yarong Li
Summary: This review summarizes the existing research on parent-child inter-brain neural synchronization (INS) and provides preliminary suggestions to promote it. It also discusses inconsistent findings and unstudied questions, opening new avenues for future studies.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Nicole R. van Veenendaal, Jennifer N. Auxier, Sophie R. D. van der Schoor, Linda S. Franck, Mireille A. Stelwagen, Femke de Groof, Johannes B. van Goudoever, Iris E. Eekhout, Henrica C. W. de Vet, Anna Axelin, Anne A. M. W. van Kempen
Summary: A tool measuring active parent participation and collaboration in neonatal care was developed, consisting of 31 items within six domains. The tool demonstrated strong validity and internal consistency.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Amy R. Smith, Rina D. Eiden, Shannon Shisler, Rocco A. Paluch, Jacqueline Piazza, Kai Ling Kong
Summary: A 2-year randomized controlled trial showed that participating in a music enrichment program improved parent-child interactional quality, but it had no effect on infant weight status.
Article
Pediatrics
Nadia F. Hoegholt, Svend Buus, Henrique M. Fernandes, Jie Sui, Peter Vuust, Morten L. Kringelbach
Summary: This study used a screen-based perceptual matching task to examine the prioritization of self and infant conditions among non-parents, people trying to conceive, and those who had given birth. The results showed that first-time parents reacted faster to infant conditions one year after giving birth, while the other two groups did not show this prioritization.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Anna Katharina Georg, Manfred Cierpka, Paul Schroeder-Pfeifer, Sandra Kress, Svenja Taubner
Summary: This study investigated the efficacy of brief psychodynamic-based focused parent-infant psychotherapy (fPIP) for infants with early regulatory disorders compared to standard pediatric care. The results indicated that fPIP was effective in significantly reducing symptoms in infants and mothers, including night-waking disorders and psychological distress, while also showing a trend towards increased maternal self-efficacy and parental reflective functioning.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Khirsten J. J. Wilson, Tram H. H. Nguyen, Cliff McKinney
Summary: A key aspect of socioemotional development is the ability to practice prosocial behavior, which is influenced by parenting from early childhood to adolescence. However, there is little research on the continuity of this relationship during emerging adulthood.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Family Studies
Katherine L. Guyon-Harris, Johana Rosas, Luciano Dolcini-Catania, Alan Mendelsohn, Pamela Morris, Anne Gill, Daniel S. Shaw
Summary: Infants and toddlers require supportive and nurturing parenting for optimal development. Assessments can identify parents in need of intervention, but measures to predict engagement in intervention are necessary.
JOURNAL OF CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES
(2023)
Review
Psychology, Biological
Oded Mayo, Michal Lavidor, Ilanit Gordon
Summary: Interpersonal physiological synchrony, the coordination of physiological processes between individuals, is crucial for human relationships and performance outcomes. The small effect sizes of the correlations between physiological synchrony and relationship or performance outcomes, especially in sympathetic versus parasympathetic activity, highlight the need for a rigorous scientific approach to distinguish different types of physiological synchrony.
PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Ilanit Gordon, Sebastian Wallot, Yair Berson
Summary: Joint performance can lead to synchronized physiological processes among group members during a shared task, which significantly impacts positive affective behavior at the group level. Specifically, heart rate and electrodermal synchronization showed opposite effects on group members' display of affective behavior. Trait anxiety may moderate the relationship between physiological synchrony and affective behavior, while social phobia did not have a moderating effect.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Ilanit Gordon, Danny Horesh, Nir Milstein, Alon Tomashin, Oded Mayo, Adi Korisky
Summary: This study highlights the importance of pre-pandemic physiological mechanisms in influencing individuals' mental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic, with mood regulation expectancies playing a mediating role in this process.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
David M. Greenberg, Jean Decety, Ilanit Gordon
Summary: During the COVID-19 pandemic, people turned to music to meet their social needs, with musical adaptations being understood through advances in social neuroscience of music, which have been overlooked in the past. Researchers emphasized the overlap between social brain networks involved in music production and those related to human cognitive processes, indicating a potential for a better understanding of the relationship between music and the social brain. The pandemic may serve as a starting point for further research in the social neuroscience of music.
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lilach Graff Nomkin, Ilanit Gordon
Summary: The study found that mothers tend to pay less attention to their infants and have higher physiological activity when using smartphones during breastfeeding. Additionally, mothers' smartphone addiction levels were negatively correlated with physiological arousal during breastfeeding.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Danny Horesh, Nir Milstein, Alon Tomashin, Oded Mayo, Ilanit Gordon
Summary: Despite the impact of COVID-19 on mental health, this study found that pre-pandemic physiological markers predicted current fears and worries related to COVID. The relationship between physiological markers and fears was moderated by household size, occurring mainly in individuals from average and larger households.
STRESS-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON THE BIOLOGY OF STRESS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Ester Zadok, Ilanit Gordon, Roni Navon, Shai Joseph Rabin, Ofer Golan
Summary: The study found that adolescents with Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exhibit altered behavioral synchrony compared to typical controls, showing a lack of synchronization in response to distress. However, there were no significant differences in empathic behavior between the two groups.
JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Ofir Negri, Danny Horesh, Ilanit Gordon, Ilanit Hasson-Ohayon
Summary: The study found that COVID-19-related worries and intolerance of uncertainty were positively associated with posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSSs), and formal media consumption amplified these effects.
JOURNAL OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASE
(2022)
Editorial Material
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Jenny Gutman, Ilanit Gordon, Noa Vilchinsky
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Education, Special
Adi Korisky, Abraham Goldstein, Adam Zaidel, Ilanit Gordon
Summary: Research on visual perception in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has yielded conflicting findings. This study aimed to integrate these results by examining low-level stimulus perception in ASD adolescents. The results showed that compared to typically developed adolescents, those with ASD were less sensitive to changes in the curvature of the stimulus. These findings highlight the importance of using multi-level paradigms to fully understand visual perception in ASD.
RESEARCH IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS
(2022)
Review
Psychology, Applied
Nir Milstein, Yarin Striet, Michal Lavidor, David Anaki, Ilanit Gordon
Summary: Rivalry, as a relational competition, has been found to increase motivation and performance, with a stronger effect observed for individual rivalry compared to group rivalry. Positive correlations between rivalry and performance were found specifically in the domains of sports and donation-raising.
ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Alon Tomashin, Ilanit Gordon, Sebastian Wallot
Summary: This study reveals that physiological synchrony between group members predicts group cohesion, regardless of the interaction context. The effects at the individual and group levels are highly correlated.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Oded Mayo, Danny Horesh, Adi Korisky, Nir Milstein, Ester Zadok, Alon Tomashin, Ilanit Gordon
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on mental well-being and interpersonal relationships. This study aimed to understand the complex interactions between perceived interpersonal closeness, physiological synchrony, emotional contagion, and well-being during the pandemic. The results showed that overall perceived interpersonal closeness was positively related to well-being, and this effect was moderated by emotional contagion and physiological synchrony. Individuals with higher emotional contagion scores or higher physiological synchrony had higher well-being if they perceived greater interpersonal closeness, while their well-being was lower if they perceived weaker interpersonal closeness.
Article
Biology
Barbora Kucerova, Nava Levit-Binnun, Ilanit Gordon, Yulia Golland
Summary: Compassion is a warm response driven by care and concern for those who are suffering, which leads individuals to allocate their resources for the well-being of others. This review paper aims to explore the neurobiological mechanisms of compassion, with a focus on the neuropeptide oxytocin and its role in regulating the saliency of pain and distress cues. By integrating the current knowledge on oxytocin with compassion-related processes, this framework sheds light on the initial stages of compassion and the variability of responses in social contexts involving suffering.
Meeting Abstract
Psychology, Clinical
Danny Horesh, Ilanit Hasson-Ohayon, Ilanit Gordon, Ofer Golan, Adam D. Brown
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTRAUMATOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Farrah N. Madison, Verner P. Bingman, Tom Smulders, Christine R. Lattin
Summary: Although research on the avian hippocampus has been limited, it is crucial for understanding its evolution and changes over time. The avian hippocampus plays important roles in spatial cognition as well as regulating anxiety, approach-avoidance behavior, and stress responses. Future research should focus on elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanisms, including endocrinology, to resolve outstanding questions about avian hippocampal function and organization.
HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR
(2024)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Judith A. H. Smit, Riet Vooijs, Peter Lindenburg, Alexander T. Baugh, Wouter Halfwerk
Summary: This study investigates the effects of urbanization on hormone levels in tungara frogs and found that urban frogs and forest frogs have different endocrine phenotypes. Exposure to urban noise and light pollution led to an increase in testosterone and a decrease in corticosterone in urban frogs, while forest frogs showed no endocrine response to sensory pollutants. These results suggest that urbanization can modulate hormone levels and influence behavior in frogs.
HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR
(2024)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Hannah D. Fulenwider, Yangmiao Zhang, Andrey E. Ryabinin
Summary: Social hierarchies have significant effects on overall health of individuals in animal groups, particularly the lowest-ranking individuals. Tube test can be used to determine social rank in male and female mice, and the complex interactions between social rank, sex, environment, and testing length influence peptide levels.
HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR
(2024)
