Hush little baby, don't you cry: How aversion to infant distress calls drives caregiving

Ilaria Carta; Anita E Autry

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2023.03.003

Hush little baby, don't you cry: How aversion to infant distress calls drives caregiving

Neuron. 2023 Apr 5;111(7):917-919. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.03.003.

Authors

Ilaria Carta¹, Anita E Autry²

Affiliations

¹ Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA.
² Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA. Electronic address: anita.autry@einsteinmed.edu.

PMID: 37023712
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2023.03.003

Abstract

Historically associated with aversion, the lateral habenula has a poorly characterized role in parenting. In this issue of Neuron, Lecca and colleagues¹ show that these seemingly opposing roles converge in a subnucleus where aversion to pup cries may drive motivation for caregiving.

Published by Elsevier Inc.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Affect
Crying* / physiology
Habenula*
Humans
Infant
Motivation
Parenting

Grants and funding

P50 HD105352/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States