Infant Attachment and Mother-Infant Relationship. A discussion of computational and experimental advances
eSeminar UNESCO UniTwin CS-DC.
e-Laboratory on Morphodynamic Neuroscience and Behavior
Department: From individual to social cognition:
e-Laboratory on Morphodynamic Neuroscience and Behavior
Great Domains:
eSeminar UNESCO UniTwin CS-DC:
Infant attachment and mother-infant relationship. A discussion of computational and experimental advances
December 2024
Monday 9, Wednesday 11, Thursday 12, and Saturday 14| 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm (Peru time) | UAC, Universidad Andina del Cusco, Perú
Hosts: Grace Pardo and Enver Oruro
Description
This event aims to discuss advances in infant attachment and the mother-infant relationship from the perspective of complex systems. From this perspective, we seek to answer questions about the formation of mother-infant attachment, how this interaction changes throughout early development, what changes in maternal behavior, how the mother contributes to offspring development, and, in this context, how infant behavioral development arises. In addition, we explore questions about the role of the environmental context in this interaction. Exploring these questions from a complex systems perspective begins by considering maternal and infant behavior as emergent properties of the organism as a whole, which emerge from the integrated activity of the nervous system and other physiological systems and elements of its immediate environmental context. Therefore, the experimental exploration of these questions includes recourse to behavioral, neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, and gene expression levels of analysis. In addition, to discuss causal elements in the phenomena we use integration strategies using computer modeling and simulation of developing models.
The eSeminar "Infant attachment and mother-infant relationship. A discussion of computational and experimental advances" is a UNESCO UniTwin CS-DC e-Seminar. This event is part of the e-Lab on Morphodynamic Neuroscience and Behaviour activities. This e-lab is organized from the perspective of complex systems called SIRE (Socially Intelligent Roadmap Ecosystem). (From: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Complex_Systems_Digital_Campus/SIRE)
'SIRE' recovers two of the four CS-DC commitments in its Cooperation Programme with UNESCO. The CS-DC Council, its sovereign assembly, was defining a 'SIRE':
1. As a 'Decentralized Autonomous Organisation' (DAO) of DAOs with as many levels as there are levels of challenges and sub-challenges in the living roadmap
2 As a fair organisation rewarding the scientific efforts of each individual member and each institutional member to disseminate trust amongst all these members through a smart contract including its challenge and bylaws.
3 As an autonomous organization with almost no administration not directly assumed by its members, where each DAO can modify its smart contract. (From: https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Portal:Complex_Systems_Digital_Campus/SIRE )
SIRE organizes the roadmap into two axes: Great Domains and Great Questions. The Infant Attachment and Mother-Infant Relationship research line is in the Great Domains and the Department: From Individual to Social Cognition. This e-seminar aims to discuss the major challenges of complexity sciences in the study of Infant attachment and mother-infant relationships.
This event aims to discuss advances in infant attachment and the mother-infant relationship at the neural and behavioral scales, combining experimental data with computational models from a complex systems approach. Challenges related to this integration will be presented at the end of the event.
Context:
We recently proposed a new theory to explain how infants learn to attach to their mothers during the sensitive period and what factors are involved in the transition to the post-sensitive period. To do so, we used computational models and our own experimental data, and we integrated models from other theories from a complex systems approach (a, b).
(a) https://learnmem.cshlp.org/content/27/1.cover-expansion
(b) https://learnmem.cshlp.org/content/27/12.cover-expansion
Our group continues this research line using experimental methods at different scales. We use a combination of ordinary and partial differential equations with agent-based modeling and network analysis, which will be presented at the eSeminar.
e-Team Leader: Grace E. Pardo PhD
Goals
1. To discuss the main challenges of infant attachment and mother-infant relationships using a complex system approach.
2. To discuss the construction of multi-scale models about the mother-infant relationship.
Organizer
Enver Oruro, envermiguel@gmail.com Executive Committee UNESCO UniTwin Complex Systems Digital Campus. Fr.
Grace Pardo, grace.pardo@gmail.com Neuroscience Research Laboratory, Instituto Científico, Universidad Andina del Cusco
Topics
Mother-infant relationship, Electrophysiology, Agent-based Modeling, Infant Attachment, Maternal Behavior, Brain Development, Morphodynamics, Sensitive Period, Complex Networks, Neural Plasticity, Neurocomputing, Early-Life Stress, Parenting, Translational Research
Previous Events
2015 “e-session on Neuroscience and Behavior” UNESCO UniTwin CS-DC’15 2015 e-session on Neuroscience and Behavior on the Conference on CS-DC’15 (Complex Systems Digital Campus ’15 – World e-Conference) USA https://cs-dc-15.org/e-tracks/cognition/
Previous complex systems meetings about mother-infant relationship:
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2018 Seminar in “Mother-Infant Attachment and Supercomputing”, New York. USA and Porto Alegre, Brazil, August 09. https://www.comses.net/events/499/
2019 Seminar in Experimental and Computational Studies on Mother-Infant Relationship October 8 and 15, 2019 ICBS, /Determine the neural pathways by which the nervous system of the neonates establish attachment with their mothers is a problem that has motivated hypothesis and experiments at several scale levels, from neurotransmission to ethological level. UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil. https://www.comses.net/events/549/
2020 Seminar in Maternal Infant Relationship Studies: Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence March 7 and 9 Goals 1. Discuss a Roadmap for mother-Infant relationship research in the framework of the UNESCO Complex System Digital Campus project. https://www.comses.net/events/570/ https://sites.google.com/view/envermiguel/seminar-in-maternal-infant-relationship-studies?read_current=1
2022 Developmental Psychobiology and Supercomputing: Seminar on Complex Systems https://sites.google.com/view/orurolab/seminar?authuser=0 , Universidad Andina del Cusco, Perú.
A previous eSeminar on complexity can be viewed here https://sites.google.com/view/orurolab/complexityepilepsy
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Abstract contributions
Deadline for abstracts October 30, 2024.
To participate in the Seminar, you must send an abstract, It is not mandatory to present unpublished data, preferably works already published. Several presentations in the program are unpublished and the recordings of the works will not be public until the publication of the papers. Please let us know whether you'd like to be part of this eTeam and if your work has data to be protected.
Send the Title and Abstract to Grace Pardo at grace.pardo@gmail.com (300 to 500 characters, It can be in Spanish, English, or Portuguese.)
Registration
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eSeminar UNESCO UniTwin CS-DC.
Infant attachment and mother-infant relationship. A discussion of computational and experimental advances
e-Team Leader: Grace E. Pardo PhD
Hosts: Lucero Cuevas, Grace Pardo and Enver Oruro
PROGRAM
Variation in maternal care and infant behavioral development of rodents
In this session, we aim to present experimental studies in rodents (mice and rats) characterizing the natural variations in maternal behavior and early developmental milestones of infants, which depend on the genetic background of the strains. We aim to discuss these results, considering the essential aspects of mother-infant interactions in rodents within the context of maternal sensitivity.
Monday, December 09, 2024
2:00 pm | Grace Pardo, PhD.
Title: “Open questions in mother-infant relationship"
Laboratory of Neuroscience Research, Scientific Institute, Universidad Andina del Cusco, Cuzco, Peru
2:30 pm | Mabel Choque Aguilar, UGs.
Title: “Strain differences in maternal behavior and infant milestones in rats”
Laboratory of Neuroscience Research, Scientific Institute, Universidad Andina del Cusco, Cuzco, Peru
3:30 pm | Maria Esther Gutiérrez Ccori, UGs.
Title: “Strain differences in ultrasonic vocalizations in infant rats”
Laboratory of Neuroscience Research, Scientific Institute, Universidad Andina del Cusco, Cuzco, Peru
4:30 pm | Christell Becerra, BSc.
Title: “Mouse strain differences in susceptibility to early-life stress”
Laboratory of Neuroscience Research, Scientific Institute, Universidad Andina del Cusco, Cuzco, Peru.
5:30 pm | Joelma Alves, PhD(s)
Title: “Effects of maternal separation in the neonatal phase on frustration in rats”
Postgraduate Research Program in Biochemistry , Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
A combined experimental and computational approach
In this session, we will present experimental advances in infant attachment and the mother-infant relationship in a rodent model from the complex system perspective. We will present experimental electrophysiological results from the olfactory cortex of infant rats during the sensitive and post-sensitive periods of attachment learning combined with computational modeling and simulation, exploring questions about the mechanisms of the sensitive period of attachment learning. We will discuss these results in the context of the neurobiology basis of secure attachment formation.
Wednesday, December 11, 2024
2:00 pm | Enver Oruro, PhD.
Title: “Neurocomputing of infant attachment learning"
Neurocomputing, Social Simulation and Complex Systems Laboratory, Cuzco, Peru.
3:00 pm | Christell Becerra, BSc.
Title: "The postnatal GABA shift in the piriform cortex of infant rats. A gene expression level exploration".
Laboratory of Neuroscience Research, Scientific Institute, Universidad Andina del Cusco, Cuzco, Peru
4:00 pm | Antuane Warthon, UGs
Title: “Excitatory action of GABA in developing neurons of the infant attachment learning circuit in rodents. A computational exploration”.
Laboratory of Neuroscience Research | Neurocomputing, Social Simulation and Complex Systems Laboratory, Scientific Institute, Universidad Andina del Cusco, Cuzco, Peru.
5:00 pm | Paola Oruro, MD.
Title: "Simulation of Neuroplasticity in the Olfactory Cortex: Unveiling New Insights with the Watts–Strogatz Model"
Neurocomputing, Social Simulation and Complex Systems Laboratory, Cuzco, Peru.
6:00 pm | Adriana Chira, BSc and Enver Oruro, PhD.
Title: “Open questions about agent-based modeling for supercomputing of infant brain”
Neurocomputing, Social Simulation and Complex Systems Laboratory, Cuzco, Peru.
6:30 pm | Renato Cano, UGs and Enver Oruro, PhD.
Title: “Morphodynamics neuroscience for infant attachment learning studies”
Neurocomputing, Social Simulation and Complex Systems Laboratory, Cuzco, Peru.
Paradigms for studying the impact of maternal care on infant development in rodents
This session will present the results of experimental paradigms to explore how sensitive maternal care during early life impacts infant development. We will present two experimental rodent models to alter mother-infant relationships and their impact on pup development at the behavioral, somatic, and neural levels. We will discuss these results in the context of insensitive caregiving behavior during infancy, attachment, and infant emotion regulation concepts
Thursday, December 12, 2024
2:00 pm | Debora Czarnabay, PhD.
Title: “Early-life stress induced by maternal separation alters maternal behavior, olfactory learning, and neural development"
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
3:00 pm | Lucero Cuevas, BSPsy
Title: “Limited bedding impacts maternal behavior and infant development. Capturing qualitative changes in maternal care variation using network analysis.”
Laboratory of Neuroscience Research, Scientific Institute, Universidad Andina del Cusco, Cuzco, Peru
4:00 pm | Alondra Casas Pary, UGs.
Title: “What isolation-induced ultrasonic vocalization of rat pups can tell us about mother-infant attachment?”
Laboratory of Neuroscience Research, Scientific Institute, Universidad Andina del Cusco, Cuzco, Peru
5: 00 pm -6:00 pm
Mesa de trabajo del grupo propuesto sobre Psicobiología del Desarrollo, de la Parentalidad y el Apego en la Sociedad Interamericana de Psicología (SIP)
Title: “Objetivos del grupo Psicobiología del desarrollo, de la parentalidad y el apego”
Moderador:. Magaly Nóblega, Departamento de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Participan: Grace Pardo, Juan Nuñez del Prado & Enver Oruro
Translational Research Discussion
In this session, we will discuss potential questions that can guide translational research on maternal mental health, mother-infant relationships, and infant development. We will summarize psychological constructs of maternal sensitivity, secure attachment, and infant self-regulation in light of human-based research findings developed by Dr. Magaly Noblega's group at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and in the light of animal model- basic research developed by Enver Oruro and Grace Pardo at the Universidad Andina del Cusco.
Saturday, December 14, 2024
2:00 pm | Magaly Nóblega PhD
Title: “Theoretical and empirical basis of maternal sensitivity”
Department of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
3:00 pm | Olenka Retis, MSc & Gabriela Conde, MSc.
Title: “What is secure attachment and how is it related to maternal sensitivity?”
Department of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
4:00 pm | Juan Nuñez del Prado, MSc.
Title: “Maternal sensitivity and infant social-emotional development: Neurobiological and stress regulation empirical evidence”
Department of Psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
5:00 pm | Grace Pardo, PhD
Title: “A rodent model of the Strange Situation Procedure: a potential experimental model for exploring translational research questions in Infant attachment formation.”
Laboratory of Neuroscience Research, Scientific Institute, Universidad Andina del Cusco, Cuzco, Peru
6:00 pm Mesa de Trabajo de UNESCO UniTwin CS-DC - eDepartment: From individual to social cognition: e-Laboratory on Morphodynamic Neuroscience and Behavior
Discussing the main challenges of infant attachment and mother-infant relationships using a complex systems approach.
Chair: Grace Pardo PhD.
Laboratory of Neuroscience Research, Scientific Institute, Universidad Andina del Cusco, Cuzco, Peru
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