Neuroscience and brain science are related.
Many of us already knew that grandmas love their grandsons.
A study published in the journal Royal Society B shows that grandmothers tend to have an urge to care for their children.
The researchers scanned the brains of 50 grandmothers while they were shown pictures of their children. The pictures of unknown children and adults were shown to the grannies.
The results? The scientists found that the regions of the grandmothers brains that determined emotional empathy would light up when they saw their grandchild.
James Rilling, a professor of anthropology at Emory University and the lead author of the study, told Agence France-Presse that they recruited areas of the brain that are involved with emotional empathy and also areas of the brain that are involved in movement and motor simulation and preparation.
He said that when the child is expressing joy, they are feeling joy and when the children are expressing distress, they are feeling distress.
When the grandmothers were shown pictures of their adult children, parts of the brain associated with cognitive empathy lit up. They were likely wondering what their child was thinking and feeling, rather than empathizing with their emotions.
It was only an average of grandmas, so your mileage may vary. It is clear that your grandmother loves and cares for you in a way not a lot of other people would.
Pick up the phone and call her. It has been a long time.
It is official: Science says that grannies are good for you.
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