title: Mothering begets mothering: the transmission of behavior and its neurobiology across generations.
abstract: Early experiences exert their effects on adult parental behavior in part by altering the development of neurobiological mechanisms that initiate or support the initiation and sustenance of adult parental behavior. The effects of parental behavior on sensory, perceptual and emotional mechanisms in offspring constitute an experientially based mechanism by which neurobiological factors regulating behavior can be transferred from generation to generation somewhat independently of genetic endowment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Erindale College, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. fleming@psych.utoronto.ca
authors.forename: Alison S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Fleming
authors.forename: Gary W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Kraemer
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gonzalez
authors.forename: Vedran
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Lovic
authors.forename: Stephanie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rees
authors.forename: Angel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Melo
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006120:Grooming / Q000502:physiology; D008098:Litter Size / Q000502:physiology; D008425:Maternal Behavior / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology; D008426:Maternal Deprivation; D010641:Phenotype; D051381:Rats; D013216:Reflex, Startle / Q000502:physiology