Authors
Alison B Wismer Fries, Toni E Ziegler, Joseph R Kurian, Steve Jacoris, Seth D Pollak
Publication date
2005/11/22
Journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Volume
102
Issue
47
Pages
17237-17240
Publisher
National Academy of Sciences
Description
The formation of social attachments is a critical component of human relationships. Infants begin to bond to their caregivers from the moment of birth, and these social bonds continue to provide regulatory emotional functions throughout adulthood. It is difficult to examine the interactions between social experience and the biological origins of these complex behaviors because children undergo both brain development and accumulate social experience at the same time. We had a rare opportunity to examine children who were reared in extremely aberrant social environments where they were deprived of the kind of care-giving typical for our species. The present experiment in nature provides insight into the role of early experience on the brain systems underlying the development of emotional behavior. These data indicate that the vasopressin and oxytocin neuropeptide systems, which are critical in the …
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