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Behav Brain Sci. 1992 Sep;15(3):493-511. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X00069752.
This article describes a neurobiological basis for the "first attachment" of the primate infant to its caretaker. The infant normally internalizes a neurobiological "image" of the behavioral and emotional characteristics of its caregiver that later regulates important features of its brain function. Current models of sensorimotor analysis and its relation to emotion suggest that sensorimotor systems are also habit and memory systems, their functional status and lability regulated in part by biogenic amine systems. The intertwined development of neural and social functions can sometimes go awry. If the attachment process fails or the caregiver is incompetent, the infant may become socially dysfunctional. This helps explain the developmental psychopathology and later vulnerability to adult psychopathology that result from disruptions of social attachment.
本文描述了灵长类婴儿与其照顾者之间“最初依恋”的神经生物学基础。婴儿通常会将照顾者的行为和情绪特征内化成为一种神经生物学“形象”，这种形象会在以后调节其大脑功能的重要特征。目前的感觉运动分析及其与情绪的关系模型表明，感觉运动系统也是习惯和记忆系统，其功能状态和不稳定性部分受到生物胺系统的调节。神经功能和社会功能的交织发展有时会出现问题。如果依恋过程失败或照顾者能力不足，婴儿可能会出现社交功能障碍。这有助于解释社会依恋中断导致的发展性精神病理学和以后易患成人精神病理学的原因。
