PHYSIOLOGY OF MOTHERHOOD: Studies Show 'Natural High' in Brains of Mothers Looking at Their Babies
Recent brain imaging studies conducted in The Human Neuro-imaging Laboratory at Baylor College of Medicine in Texas show that a mother is triggered physiologically by as little as a picture of her child.
The brain images captured while 28 different first-time mothers looked at their infant showed that the brain's reward centers are activated by an increased blood flow, thus creating a "natural high" effect.
These same areas are associated with thinking, movement, behavior and emotion.
[17July08, Jenna Murphy, Houston, www.LifeSiteNews.com]