The MOTHERMOUSE project: Behavioral and psychoendocrinological rodent studies on the importance of early maternal bonding for adult social and cognitive functioning KU Leuven
Children’s attachment to parental caregivers plays a central role in the etiology of various social and cognitive defects. Since it is ethically inappropriate to involve human infants in invasive experimental research on attachment, the present application proposes experiments in laboratory mice to investigate the biopsychological and psychoendocrinological mechanisms of parent-infant bonding and adult social and cognitive performance. We ...