BIOB51H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Postpartum Depression, Substantia Nigra, Biopower
4 Jul 2017
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Readings questions ( adverse childhood experiences)week 2: 4 ( biological embedding, adversity & fear) 3 papers - week 3: 6 (friending, freaking out & giving up)week 4:6 (infant stress )week 5: 2 (hidden regulators)week 6: 4. Biopower: a productive power, biopower seeks control of life and the biological processes of man as species and of ensuring that they are not disciplined but regularized, concerning itself with the governing of the life processes of populations. Foucault describes biopower in which life becomes the object of political strategy. Lower child cortisol, in turn, was associated with higher child intenralizing symptoms. Parenting is probably one of the most conserved behavioral systems across mammals (in others words, parenting volved similarly in multiple species). Also 11-20% of new mothers stuff postpartum depression. Mothers expend an incredible amount of resources to raise children at greater personal cost and so. In human mothers from 2 weeks to 4 months structural increases in.
