Invited Talk
Mothering and Dopamine
| Chair:
Alison S. Fleming
[Email Presenter]
University of Toronto |
Given their truly unusual features, it is fortunate for newborns that in most cases their mothers are attracted to them and attentive to their signals. In this talk I will discuss for rat and human mothers, the phenomenology of maternal hedonics and attention and their regulation by limbic and cortical dopamine systems.
2010 Program Committee
Tyler S. Lorig, Washington and Lee University (Chair); Nalini Ambady, Tufts University; Abigail Baird, Vassar College; Sian Beilock, University of Chicago; Daniel Klein, State University of New York, Stony Brook; Richard Lewis, Pomona College; Kris Preacher, University of Kansas; Deidra Schleicher, Purdue University; Timothy Strauman, Duke University; Tracy Zinn, James Madison University