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Wednesday 25 OctOber 2017

Waaah: Crying babies push same ‘buttons’ in mothers’ brains

By MALCOLM RITTER meaning of a cry and on matter of a few months to
AP Science Writer brain parts known to play be especially sensitive” to
NEW YORK (AP) — Cry- critical roles in maternal an infant’s cry, perhaps be-
ing babies push the same caregiving. cause of hormonal chang-
“buttons” in their mothers’ With brain scans, they es that occur with parent-
brains no matter what their found those brain areas ing, he wrote.
culture, a new study sug- were activated when 43 In fact, one contribution
gests. first-time mothers in the of Bornstein’s work is that
The research found that U.S. listened to recordings suggestion that brain de-
mothers in 11 countries of their infants crying. Fifty velopment can continue
tend to react the same mothers in China and Italy beyond young adulthood,
way to their bawling child showed a similar result, with with motherhood as a key
— by picking up and talk- the Chinese moms showing stimulus, commented Yale
ing to the baby — and that different brain responses University researcher Linda
the way mothers respond when they heard other Mayes, who did not partici-
seems to be programmed In this Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008 file photo, a baby cries in its sounds like infants laughing pate in the study. Helena
into their brain circuits. bed in a hospital in Bremen, northern Germany. or babbling. Rutherford of Yale, who
An author of the study said Associated Press But brains of six Italian also did not participate in
he hopes the results will old. The observations were volved in the responses women who were not the study, said the brain
spur others to study brain done in Argentina, Bel- they saw. They focused on mothers reacted differently findings make sense, and
responses in women who gium, Brazil, Cameroon, circuitry that’s activated to crying, Bornstein said in that the study was signifi-
mistreat their children. Cry- France, Kenya, Israel, Italy, when a person plans to an email. “Mothers, based cant for showing consisten-
ing is a common trigger Japan, South Korea and do or say something, other on their personal experi- cy across cultures in those
for abuse, said Marc Born- the United States. circuitry that could be in- ence, could easily have responses and the behav-
stein of the government’s Analysis showed that the volved in figuring out the their brains shaped in a ior of the mothers.q
National Institute of Child mothers were likely to re-
Health and Human Devel- spond to crying by picking
opment in Bethesda, Mary- up and talking to the infant. Stephen Hawking’s Ph.D thesis goes
land. The new results were But they were not likely to
released Monday by the use other responses such as online, website crashes
Proceedings of the Nation- kissing, distracting, feeding
al Academy of Sciences. or burping the child. Results LONDON (AP) — Cam-
The researchers analyzed were similar across the vari- bridge University has put
videotapes of 684 mothers ous countries. Stephen Hawking’s doctor-
in 11 countries as they in- Next, researchers thought al thesis online, triggering
teracted with their infants, about what parts of the such interest that it crashed
who were around 5 months brain would likely be in- the university’s website.
Completed in 1966 when
Hawking was 24, “Proper-
ties of Expanding Universes”
explores ideas about the
origins of the universe that
have resonated through In this Monday, March 6, 2017 file photo, Britain’s Professor
the scientist’s career. Stephen Hawking receives the Honorary Freedom of the City of

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