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Why do you want to ‘eat’ the baby? Strange urge could have biological underpinnings
September 23, 2013 by NewsBot
What woman has not wanted to gobble up a baby placed in her arms, even if the baby is not hers? This reaction, which most everyone has noticed or felt, could have biological underpinnings related to maternal functions. For the first time, an international team of researchers has found evidence of this phenomenon in the neural networks associated with reward.