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Emory University Reveals How Grandmother Brains React to Grandchildren
Proceedings of the Royal Society B. It marks the first to investigate grandmaternal brain function.“What jumps out in the data is the activation in areas of the brain associated with emotional empathy,” says James Rilling, Emory professor of anthropology and lead author of the study. “That really suggests that grandmothers are geared toward feeling what their grandchildren are feeling when they interact with them.