PHYSCI M140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Couvade, Body Plan, Cortisol

• School: UCLA
• Department: Physiological Science
• Course: PHYSCI M140
• Professor: Lynch Alfaro

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Poor developmental outcomes from: neglect, abuse, postpartum depression. Mothers, fathers and day care workers may all need help. More stress for single parents or those living in poverty. Interventions can target neural and hormonal systems that mediate sensitive parental care. Cognitive control and emotion regulation systems (if you are frustrated when parenting, these are systems in brain that allow you to still behave appropriately) Illi(cid:374)g(cid:859)s article (cid:862)ha(cid:373)sters still pare(cid:374)t effecti(cid:448)el(cid:455) after re(cid:373)o(cid:448)al of their (cid:374)eocorte(cid:454) e(cid:448)e(cid:374) if the (cid:374)eocorte(cid:454) is (cid:374)ot criticall(cid:455) i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)ed i(cid:374) pare(cid:374)tal care of rode(cid:374)ts, it certai(cid:374)l(cid:455) is i(cid:374)(cid:448)ol(cid:448)ed i(cid:374) hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) pare(cid:374)tal care(cid:863) Djungarian hamsters provide complex and extensive paternal care at birth. Closely related siberian hamsters do not provide this kind of paternal care. Hamsters (rodents) can also have complex behaviors even without the neocortex that is present in humans. Where in the brain these four systems are happening: cognitive emotional regulation (frontal cortex) allows for appropriate behavior even when frustrated, reward, arousal (amygdala), empathy.