title: Mother-infant communication: carrying understanding to a new level.
abstract: A recent study has found that carrying - not just holding - by human mothers has a specific calming effect on crying infants, inducing a coordinated physiological response that includes a reduction in heart rate. A similar response in mice has opened the door to elucidating the underlying neural mechanisms.
authors: Department of Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. scgammie@wisc.edu
authors: Stephen C
authors: SC
authors: Gammie
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001007:Anxiety; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018730:Infant Behavior; D008297:Male; D009068:Movement