Mothers are more apathetic towards their children if they were CSDs

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Re: Mothers are more apathetic towards their children if they were CSDs

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First this suggests that VD mothers are more sensitive to own baby-cry than CSD mothers in the early postpartum in sensory processing, empathy, arousal, motivation, reward and habit-regulation circuits. Second, independent of mode of delivery, parental worries and mood are related to specific brain activations in response to own baby-cry.

Well Psyah, I have access to the full paper (not just the abstract) which I have read and it repeatedly uses the phrase ‘less responsive’ because the rest is just conjecture by the authors based on their interpretations of the fMRI’s.

BTW empathy and apathy are not interchangeable. They have distinctly different meanings.