Why Attachment Matters in Social Neuroscience

Dr Pascal Vrticka has written a new blog post for Scottish Attachment in Action, a UK registered charity since 2015 with a Board of Trustees consisting of practitioners, parents and carers that represent their mission that ‘Attachment Matters for All’.

In his blog post, Dr Vrticka explains the growing interest in better understanding the neurobiological underpinnings of human attachment that gave rise to a new area of research, the Social Neuroscience of Human Attachment (SoNeAt). He then shows that a SoNeAt approach to attachment does not only provide added value, but that the research methods this approach involves should be regarded as independent and integral tools that are necessary to fully capture the complex nature of attachment. Dr Vrticka continues by referring to the first neuro-anatomical model of human attachment (NAMA) as a very good starting point to learn about SoNeAt’s considerations. Finally, he points out the importance of translating the scientific findings obtained within SoNeAt for the benefit of as many people as possible, with a first very nice example being the BabyGro Book for Parents.

▶The full blog post can be freely accessed here.