Alison Fleming is a Canadian neuroscientist best known for her work studying mothering instincts and maternal behavior in a wide variety of models, including rats, mice, rabbits, monkeys, and humans.
She was previously a professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Her dissertation research surrounded the effect of external factors on maternal behavior in rats.
Fleming also later published an account of Rosenblatt's contributions to the field of maternal behavior relationships, entitled "The three faces of Jay S.
"[2] Fleming's work at St. Joseph's Hospital has involved using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study postpartum depression.