Rosemary Brown
Dr Rosie Brown is a Sir Charles Hercus HRC Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physiology at the University of Otago. Her research group focuses on how hormones modulate a mother’s behaviour so that the display of care-giving behaviour is timed to coincide with the birth of offspring. Her group investigates the hormone-sensitive neural circuit that drives parental behaviour in both mothers and fathers and how the changing hormones of pregnancy and lactation act on circuitry to modulate mood and behaviour in parents. Their research has focused on the role of the prolactin family of hormones in regulating parental behaviour, and they have identified a critical role for prolactin in the onset of parental behaviour in both mothers and fathers.
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