Melissa Jarquin

Houston researchers have found that mothers who see their baby smile have similar physiological reactions that drug addicts have when they take drugs. Greatest amounts of blood flow to the brain were recorded when mothers saw pictures of their own babies, versus when they saw pictures of other infants to whom they were not attached emotionally. Because the smiling activates blood flow and activity in reward center routes associated with dopamine I think tickle tactics and browsing though pictures of your smiling baby can surely be a new way to deal with the ever evolving postpartum depression that nearly 20% of new moms experience.

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