Attachment anxiety (fear of abandonment) is associated with disinhibited eating in adults. Both maternal disinhibited eating and use of emotional feedings strategies are associated with emotional eating in children. On this basis, the current study sought to determine whether attachment anxiety is an underlying maternal characteristic that predicts parental reports of child emotional over-eatin...

Depression in pregnancy (also called 'antenatal depression') is being increasingly recognized as a clinically relevant condition that affects obstetric outcome, maternal behaviour and children's future mental health. The present review focuses on the molecular mechanisms operating in utero that underlie the potential effects of antenatal depression on mothers' and children's behaviour. In parti...

caesarean section (c-section) rates have been increasing dramatically in the past decades around the world. this increase has been attributed to multiple factors such as maternal, socio-demographic and institutional fac-tors. therefore, this study examines the impact of maternal, socio-demographic and relevant characteristics on caesar-ean delivery in the northern region of bangladesh.this stud...

AIMS To explore the utility of first-person viewpoint cameras at home, for recording mother and infant behaviour, and for reducing problems associated with participant reactivity, which represent a fundamental bias in observational research. METHODS We compared footage recording the same play interactions from a traditional third-person point of view (3rd PC) and using cameras worn on headban...

Stress can inhibit maternal behaviour and increase rates of child abuse in humans and other animals; however, the neuroendocrine mechanisms are not known. To determine whether corticotrophin-releasing hormone (CRH) plays a role in stress-induced disruption of maternal behaviour in primates, we characterised the effects of acute i.c.v. infusions of CRH on maternal and abusive behaviour in common...

Based on Tinbergen's view of the study of behavioural development we describe some recent advances and their importance in this field. We argue that the study of behavioural development should combine both proximate and ultimate approaches, and can help to understand how early subtle environmental factors shape consistent individual variation both between and within sexes. This is illustrated b...

Abstract Maternal environmental exposures, such as high-fat diets, diabetes and obesity, can induce long-term effects in offspring. These include increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) including autism spectrum disorder (ASD), depression anxiety. The mechanisms underlying these late-life neurologic are unknown. In this article, we measured changes the offspring brain determined w...