A mother’s soothing presence not only helps relieve her baby’s pain, but it could also alter gene activity in the region of the brain involved in emotions, says new study.
In the study of rats by the New York University Langone Medical Center, believed to be the first to show the short-term effects of maternal caring, researchers performed genetic analysis of tissue from the amygdala region of rat pups’ brains, which is responsible for processing emotions.
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