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The Family Biorhythm: Contributions of the HPA and HPG Axes to Neuroendocrine Attunement

OBJECTIVE: The vast majority of research on biobehavioral influences on development has focused on mothers and infants, whereas research on paternal biobehavioral influences remains sparse. This study aims to increase understanding of paternal influences on the biobehavioral dynamics of the family u...

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Autores principales: Wood, Erin E., Garza, Ray, Clauss, Nikki, Short, Victoria M., Ciciolla, Lucia, Patel, Devanshi, Byrd-Craven, Jennifer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10101824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37360190
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40750-023-00215-0
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author Wood, Erin E.
Garza, Ray
Clauss, Nikki
Short, Victoria M.
Ciciolla, Lucia
Patel, Devanshi
Byrd-Craven, Jennifer
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Garza, Ray
Clauss, Nikki
Short, Victoria M.
Ciciolla, Lucia
Patel, Devanshi
Byrd-Craven, Jennifer
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description OBJECTIVE: The vast majority of research on biobehavioral influences on development has focused on mothers and infants, whereas research on paternal biobehavioral influences remains sparse. This study aims to increase understanding of paternal influences on the biobehavioral dynamics of the family unit, using a multi-system approach. METHODS: Participants consisted of 32 predominantly high-risk families recruited during pregnancy who completed monthly questionnaires and in-home visits when infants were 4, 12, and 18 months of age. In-home visits included semi-structured interaction tasks and saliva samples for cortisol and progesterone assays. RESULTS: Mothers and infants, but not fathers and infants, showed adrenocortical attunement, with the strongest attunement at 18 months. Second, mothers’ couple satisfaction did not significantly impact infants’ cortisol levels or mother-infant cortisol attunement, but mothers’ progesterone moderated the relationship between couple satisfaction and infant cortisol levels such that mothers with low couple satisfaction, but high progesterone, had infants with lower cortisol levels. Finally, mothers’ and fathers’ progesterone levels were attuned across the time points. CONCLUSIONS: This is some of the first evidence of the establishment of the family biorhythm and suggests that fathers play an indirect role in facilitating mother-infant adrenocortical attunement. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40750-023-00215-0.
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spelling pubmed-101018242023-04-17 The Family Biorhythm: Contributions of the HPA and HPG Axes to Neuroendocrine Attunement Wood, Erin E. Garza, Ray Clauss, Nikki Short, Victoria M. Ciciolla, Lucia Patel, Devanshi Byrd-Craven, Jennifer Adapt Human Behav Physiol Research OBJECTIVE: The vast majority of research on biobehavioral influences on development has focused on mothers and infants, whereas research on paternal biobehavioral influences remains sparse. This study aims to increase understanding of paternal influences on the biobehavioral dynamics of the family unit, using a multi-system approach. METHODS: Participants consisted of 32 predominantly high-risk families recruited during pregnancy who completed monthly questionnaires and in-home visits when infants were 4, 12, and 18 months of age. In-home visits included semi-structured interaction tasks and saliva samples for cortisol and progesterone assays. RESULTS: Mothers and infants, but not fathers and infants, showed adrenocortical attunement, with the strongest attunement at 18 months. Second, mothers’ couple satisfaction did not significantly impact infants’ cortisol levels or mother-infant cortisol attunement, but mothers’ progesterone moderated the relationship between couple satisfaction and infant cortisol levels such that mothers with low couple satisfaction, but high progesterone, had infants with lower cortisol levels. Finally, mothers’ and fathers’ progesterone levels were attuned across the time points. CONCLUSIONS: This is some of the first evidence of the establishment of the family biorhythm and suggests that fathers play an indirect role in facilitating mother-infant adrenocortical attunement. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40750-023-00215-0. Springer International Publishing 2023-04-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10101824/ /pubmed/37360190 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40750-023-00215-0 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Wood, Erin E.
Garza, Ray
Clauss, Nikki
Short, Victoria M.
Ciciolla, Lucia
Patel, Devanshi
Byrd-Craven, Jennifer
The Family Biorhythm: Contributions of the HPA and HPG Axes to Neuroendocrine Attunement
title The Family Biorhythm: Contributions of the HPA and HPG Axes to Neuroendocrine Attunement
title_full The Family Biorhythm: Contributions of the HPA and HPG Axes to Neuroendocrine Attunement
title_fullStr The Family Biorhythm: Contributions of the HPA and HPG Axes to Neuroendocrine Attunement
title_full_unstemmed The Family Biorhythm: Contributions of the HPA and HPG Axes to Neuroendocrine Attunement
title_short The Family Biorhythm: Contributions of the HPA and HPG Axes to Neuroendocrine Attunement
title_sort family biorhythm: contributions of the hpa and hpg axes to neuroendocrine attunement
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10101824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37360190
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40750-023-00215-0
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