How grandmothers’ brains react to the sight of their grandchildren

Many people lucky enough to have grown up with doting grandmothers know that they can burnish a child’s development in unique and valuable ways. Now, for the first time, scientists have scanned grandmothers’ brains while they’re viewing photos of their young grandchildren — providing a neural snapshot of this special, inter-generational bond. 

Proceedings of the Royal Society B published the first study to examine grandmaternal brain function, conducted by researchers at Emory University.