Researchers are using new technology to understand the bond between mothers and infants:
Everyone knows nothing melts a mother’s heart like a baby’s smile.
But Houston researchers have found that it also activates a region of the brain known as the reward center, a middle area associated with feelings of euphoria…
“This could be described as a natural high,” said Dr. Lane Strathearn, a pediatrics professor at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital and the research’s lead investigator. “Mothers just had to look at their baby’s smiling face, and blood flow in the region picked up…”
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