Suboptimal bonding impairs hormonal, epigenetic and neuronal development in preterm infants, but these impairments can be reversed

A randomised trial of continuous skin-to-skin contact after preterm birth and the effects on salivary cortisol, parental stress, depression, and breastfeeding

(2015) Evalotte Mörelius et al.   EARLY HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

Family Nurture Intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit improves social-relatedness, attention, and neurodevelopment of preterm infants at 18 months in a randomized controlled trial

(2015) Martha G. Welch et al.   JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY

Family Nurture Intervention Improves the Quality of Maternal Caregiving in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

(2015) Amie A. Hane et al.   JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL PEDIATRICS

Maternal Regulation of Infant Brain State

(2014) Emma C. Sarro et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Effects of maternal care on the development of midbrain dopamine pathways and reward-directed behavior in female offspring

(2014) Catherine Jensen Peña et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Stress and the Reproductive Axis

(2014) D. Toufexis et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Early-Life Experience, Epigenetics and the Developing Brain

(2014) Marija Kundakovic et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Perinatal programming of emotional brain circuits: an integrative view from systems to molecules

(2014) Jörg Bock et al.   Frontiers in Neuroscience

Oxytocin Pathways and the Evolution of Human Behavior

(2013) C. Sue Carter   Annual Review of Psychology

Maternal-Preterm Skin-to-Skin Contact Enhances Child Physiologic Organization and Cognitive Control Across the First 10 Years of Life

(2013) Ruth Feldman et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

On the causes of early life experience effects: Evaluating the role of mom

(2013) Akaysha C. Tang et al.   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

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(2013) Zuberoa Marcos   LANCET NEUROLOGY

Impact of early adversity on glucocorticoid regulation and later mental disorders

(2013) Nicole Strüber et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS

Neonatal pain-related stress, functional cortical activity and visual-perceptual abilities in school-age children born at extremely low gestational age

(2013) Sam M. Doesburg et al.   PAIN

Authors' Response: NIDCAP: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials

(2013) A. Ohlsson et al.   PEDIATRICS

NIDCAP: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials

(2013) A. Ohlsson et al.   PEDIATRICS

Individual differences underlying susceptibility to addiction: Role for the endogenous oxytocin system

(2013) Femke T.A. Buisman-Pijlman et al.   PHARMACOLOGY BIOCHEMISTRY AND BEHAVIOR

Psychobiological mechanisms underlying the social buffering of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenocortical axis: A review of animal models and human studies across development.

(2013) Camelia E. Hostinar et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL BULLETIN

TRPV1 Activation in Primary Cortical Neurons Induces Calcium-Dependent Programmed Cell Death

(2013) Juhyun Song et al.   Experimental Neurobiology

Closeness and separation in neonatal intensive care

(2012) Renée Flacking et al.   ACTA PAEDIATRICA

Procedural pain and brain development in premature newborns

(2012) Susanne Brummelte et al.   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

How Do Interactions Between Early Caregiving Environment and Genes Influence Health and Behavior?

(2012) N. Letourneau et al.   Biological Research for Nursing

Exposure to biological maternal sounds improves cardiorespiratory regulation in extremely preterm infants

(2012) Laura Doheny et al.   Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine

Epigenetics and Family-Centered Developmental Care for the Preterm Infant

(2012) Haifa (Abou) Samra et al.   Advances in Neonatal Care

Should Neonates Sleep Alone?

(2011) Barak E. Morgan et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Foundations of Developmental Care

(2011) Joy V. Browne et al.   CLINICS IN PERINATOLOGY

Motor System Development of the Preterm and Low Birthweight Infant

(2011) Julia B. Pitcher et al.   CLINICS IN PERINATOLOGY

Infant Bonding and Attachment to the Caregiver: Insights from Basic and Clinical Science

(2011) Regina Sullivan et al.   CLINICS IN PERINATOLOGY

Toward understanding how early-life social experiences alter oxytocin- and vasopressin-regulated social behaviors

(2011) Alexa H. Veenema   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Early life experience shapes the functional organization of stress-responsive visceral circuits

(2011) Linda Rinaman et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Maternal touch and feed as critical regulators of behavioral and stress responses in the offspring

(2010) Claire-Dominique Walker   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Ordinary variations in human maternal caregiving in infancy and biobehavioral development in early childhood: A follow-up study

(2010) Amie Ashley Hane et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY

Early Sensitivity Training for Parents of Preterm Infants: Impact on the Developing Brain

(2010) Jeannette Milgrom et al.   PEDIATRIC RESEARCH

Effects of neonatal handling on social memory, social interaction, and number of oxytocin and vasopressin neurons in rats

(2009) Anelise S. Todeschin et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Dynamic DNA methylation programs persistent adverse effects of early-life stress

(2009) Chris Murgatroyd et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Meta-Analysis of Neurobehavioral Outcomes in Very Preterm and/or Very Low Birth Weight Children

(2009) C. S. H. Aarnoudse-Moens et al.   PEDIATRICS

Neonatal handling reduces the number of cells in the medial preoptic area of female rats

(2008) Tatiane S.C. Camozzato et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH