The behavioral neuroendocrinology of maternal behavior: Past accomplishments and future directions.

Horm Behav

Tufts University, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, North Grafton, MA 01536, USA. Electronic address:

Published: April 2020

Research on the neuroendocrine-endocrine-neural regulation of maternal behavior has made significant progress the past 50 years. In this mini-review progress during this period has been divided into five stages. These stages consist of advances in the identification of endocrine factors that mediate maternal care, the characterization of the neural basis of maternal behavior with reference to endocrine actions, the impact of developmental and experiential states on maternal care, the dynamic neuroplastic maternal brain, and genes and motherhood. A final section concludes with a discussion of future directions in the field of the neurobiology/neuroendocrinology of motherhood.

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