Parenting and the Brain

说明： 父母教养和大脑？会议将于2007年6月在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行，这是一系列国际科学会议中的第三次会议，这些会议致力于研究母职和父职护理及其基本生物学基础。这一系列会议的第一次会议于1999年在英国布里斯托尔举行，会议的重点是母亲的大脑。2003年，第二次会议题为？母婴会议？在加拿大蒙特利尔举行。即将到来的使命？育儿和大脑？会议的目的是将国际公认的基础和临床研究人员聚集在一起，他们使用最先进的科学方法来研究中枢神经系统在母亲和父亲护理中的作用，从而增加我们对大脑生物学如何影响心理健康的理解。研究人员将讨论在与抚养后代相关的生物关键时期父母行为和反应的变化。这次会议的一个中心焦点将是考虑调节大脑对育儿适应的潜在机制。父母教养的翻译方面将是该计划的第二个关键组成部分。会议将审议与产后情绪障碍有关的问题，如产后抑郁、焦虑、母亲攻击性，以及父母与婴儿联系不足，以努力确定基础科学和临床科学在这些关键主题上的新联系，并促进我们对精神健康问题的理解和治疗。会议记录将作为综合案文出版。

DESCRIPTION: The ?Parenting and the Brain? conference to be held in Boston, Massachusetts in June, 2007 is the third conference in a series of international scientific meetings devoted to the study of maternal and paternal care-giving and its underlying biological substrates. The initial meeting in this series of conferences was held in Bristol, England in 1999 and focused on the ?The Maternal Brain.? In 2003, a second meeting entitled the ?Mothers and Infants Conference? was held in Montreal, Canada. The mission of the upcoming ?Parenting and the Brain? conference is to bring together internationally recognized basic and clinical researchers who use state of the art scientific approaches to examine the role of the central nervous system in both maternal and paternal care-giving and thereby increase our understanding of how the biology of the brain influences mental health. Researchers will discuss variations in parental behavior and responses during biological critical periods associated with raising offspring. A central focus of this meeting will be consideration of underlying mechanisms that regulate adaptations of the brain toward parenting. Translational aspects of parenting will be a second key component of the program. The conference will consider issues related to postpartum mood disorders, such as postpartum depression, anxiety, maternal aggression, as well as insufficient parental bonding to infants in an effort to identify novel linkages between the basic and clinical sciences on these crucial topics and to advance our understanding and treatment of mental health issues. The conference proceedings will be published as an integrated text.