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Breastfeeding dynamically changes endogenous oxytocin levels and emotion recognition in mothers
Breastfeeding behaviours can significantly change mothers' physiological and psychological states. The hormone oxytocin may mediate breastfeeding and mothers' emotion recognition. This study examined the effects of endogenous oxytocin fluctuation via breastfeeding on emotion recognition in...
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2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7336852/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32486937 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0139 |
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author | Matsunaga, Michiko Kikusui, Takefumi Mogi, Kazutaka Nagasawa, Miho Ooyama, Rumi Myowa, Masako |
author_facet | Matsunaga, Michiko Kikusui, Takefumi Mogi, Kazutaka Nagasawa, Miho Ooyama, Rumi Myowa, Masako |
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description | Breastfeeding behaviours can significantly change mothers' physiological and psychological states. The hormone oxytocin may mediate breastfeeding and mothers' emotion recognition. This study examined the effects of endogenous oxytocin fluctuation via breastfeeding on emotion recognition in 51 primiparous mothers. Saliva oxytocin was assessed before and after the manipulation (breastfeeding or holding an infant), and emotion recognition tasks were conducted. Among mothers who breastfed daily, mothers with more increased levels of oxytocin after breastfeeding showed more reduced negative recognition and enhanced positive recognition of adult facial expressions. These oxytocin functions accompanying breastfeeding may support continued nurturing behaviours and also affect the general social cognition of other adults beyond any specific effect on infants. |
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spelling | pubmed-73368522020-07-08 Breastfeeding dynamically changes endogenous oxytocin levels and emotion recognition in mothers Matsunaga, Michiko Kikusui, Takefumi Mogi, Kazutaka Nagasawa, Miho Ooyama, Rumi Myowa, Masako Biol Lett Physiology Breastfeeding behaviours can significantly change mothers' physiological and psychological states. The hormone oxytocin may mediate breastfeeding and mothers' emotion recognition. This study examined the effects of endogenous oxytocin fluctuation via breastfeeding on emotion recognition in 51 primiparous mothers. Saliva oxytocin was assessed before and after the manipulation (breastfeeding or holding an infant), and emotion recognition tasks were conducted. Among mothers who breastfed daily, mothers with more increased levels of oxytocin after breastfeeding showed more reduced negative recognition and enhanced positive recognition of adult facial expressions. These oxytocin functions accompanying breastfeeding may support continued nurturing behaviours and also affect the general social cognition of other adults beyond any specific effect on infants. The Royal Society 2020-06 2020-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7336852/ /pubmed/32486937 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0139 Text en © 2020 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Physiology Matsunaga, Michiko Kikusui, Takefumi Mogi, Kazutaka Nagasawa, Miho Ooyama, Rumi Myowa, Masako Breastfeeding dynamically changes endogenous oxytocin levels and emotion recognition in mothers |
title | Breastfeeding dynamically changes endogenous oxytocin levels and emotion recognition in mothers |
title_full | Breastfeeding dynamically changes endogenous oxytocin levels and emotion recognition in mothers |
title_fullStr | Breastfeeding dynamically changes endogenous oxytocin levels and emotion recognition in mothers |
title_full_unstemmed | Breastfeeding dynamically changes endogenous oxytocin levels and emotion recognition in mothers |
title_short | Breastfeeding dynamically changes endogenous oxytocin levels and emotion recognition in mothers |
title_sort | breastfeeding dynamically changes endogenous oxytocin levels and emotion recognition in mothers |
topic | Physiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7336852/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32486937 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0139 |
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