Behavioral Neuroscience & Development

I am interested in the various routes (environmental, genetic, epigenetic) through which mothers and fathers may have a differential impact upon their offspring’s development, and how these effects may be transmitted trans-generationally. I am particularly interested in the mother-infant relationship and how each individual regulates this interaction as well as the consequences of variations in this care for offspring behavior. I also investigate the neural regulation of maternal care and argue that the evolution of these neural systems formed the basis for the evolution of regulating complex mammalian social relationships.