Giovanni Laviola  Simone Macrì
Editors

2013

A few years ago (a time at which the words face and book were still independent from one another), we were ruminating on a set of experiments demonstrating that being a rat and being reared to a careful mother—a good rat mum spends hours feeding and licking her pups—increased the odds that a subsequent challenge or stressor would be handled without major hassles (i.e., with a small activation of all those biological systems mediating the increased heartbeat, vigilance, motor agitation, and sense of fear, common to all “stressed” mammals).