2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
To investigate the methodology of intervention for promotion of thematernal love in pregnancy by the elucidation of the neural basisof maternal love
| Project/Area Number |
22592486
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Lifelong developmental nursing
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| Research Institution | Nagasaki University |
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Principal Investigator |
ARAKI Miyuki 長崎大学, 大学院・医歯薬学総合研究科, 准教授 (10304974)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NISHITANI Shota 長崎大学, 大学院・医歯薬学総合研究科, 助教 (50448495)
OISHI Kazuyo 長崎大学, 大学院・医歯薬学総合研究科, 教授 (00194069)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | ヒト / ホルモン / 脳 / 母性愛 / 近赤外分光法(NIRS) |
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| Research Abstract |
Although in animals it has been reported that when females become mothers, their neural basis related to maternal behaviors seem to be changed, there were few reports in humans. We investigated whether the prefrontal function of pregnant women in gestational age 30 weeks were changed compared with nulliparous women. On the other hand, there were several neuroimaging studies using fMRI to clarify the neural correlates of maternal love in postpartum mothers, however, such neural correlates in pregnant women has never been studied because of its methodological issues. Thus, we examined to establish the methods to measure the prefrontal function which seems to be reflected maternal love by using near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) non-invasively.
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