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Tuesday, 30 November 2010 13:21

Attachment Memories Boosted by Oxytocin

The hormone oxytocin intesifies men's memories of how caring their mother's were during the attachment process according to new research.
A review of 50 years of research into the effects of daycare has concluded that children whose mothers return to work before their offspring turn 3 are no more likely to have academic or behavioural problems than kids whose mothers stay at home.
The latest results from the longitudinal study on the impact of childcare run by the American National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) have shown that high quality childcare before the age of 5 can have a postive effect on academic achievement at age 15.
A level Psychology students who are studying the impact of daycare on children's development may be interested in a new study that investigated how children's relationships with substitute caregivers affect the levels of the stress hormone cortisol.
A new study suggests that mothers who give birth naturally bond more strongly with their babies than mothers who have caesarean sections. This may be due to the flood of hormones, such as oxytocin that are realeased during natural childbirth. The study was published by Yale School of Medicine researchers in the October issue of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.