Figure 2.

The relationship between neurocircuits of stress, reward, and parenting. Parenting circuitry (red) shares many regions with stress (blue) and reward (yellow). The regions listed in the center have been implicated in all three circuits, suggesting that disruption in regions of one circuit can have profound impact on the functioning of the other connected circuits. It can be seen by the number of regions included in the Parental Circuitry circle that performance of optimal parental care (and the many types of behavior that fall into this category) requires typical functioning of the majority of the brain. Color coding in the legend indicates the anatomical brain systems in which each region belongs.