Researchers are learning more about what makes a grandmother's relationship with her grandkids so special.
and grandchildren. To do so, they showed the grandmothers photos of their children, grandchildren, an adult the grandmothers didn't know and a child they didn't know while monitoring their brain activity with functional magnetic resonance imaging.
When the participants looked at pictures of their grandkids, the researchers saw activation in brain areas that are associated with emotional empathy, Rilling explained. But when the grandmothers looked at pictures of their grandchildren's same-sex parent , there was more activation in areas of the brain linked with what's called cognitive empathy.
"It's a very important study," Myrna Weissman, professor of epidemiology and psychiatry at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, told TODAY. Although the sample size of the study was relatively small, she said the researchers' combination of brain imaging and questionnaire data was"innovative" and points to a way forward for those in the field.
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