So baby shut up if in arm

(ANSAmed) – Rome, Apr 19 – when a baby is crying in her arms a baby calla down and stop crying. An Italian scientist working in Japan has discovered the benefits of this “magic”: baby ‘ activate innate mechanisms that cause relaxation, such as the reduction of the movements of the body and the heart rate. The discovery, published in Current Biology, is Gianluca Esposito.

The calming effect is based on evolutionarily old mechanisms shared by many mammals.