Conference Agenda

The changing parental brain: neural, affective and behavioral adaptations supporting parental care across species

Chair(s): Joana Vieira (Utrecht university), Michelle Achterberg (Erasmus university rotterdam)

Presentations of the Symposium

Mothers neglect their young when peripartum adaptations of the CRF system fail – evidence from rodents

Oliver Bosch
University of regensburg, Germany

From defense to care: exploring the role of neural defensive circuits in human parenting

Joana Vieira
Utrecht university

Adaptations to fatherhood are revealed across distributed patterns of affective responding in corticostriatal and medial frontoparietal networks

Phil Newsome
University of southern california

Parental burnout in the brain: The neuroscience of parental stress

Michelle Achterberg
Erasmus university rotterdam