Share on Pinterest In a study in voles, the so-called love hormone was not necessary to promote pair bonding, but why? Image credit: Anastasia Mihaylova (Shpara)/Stocksy. Previous studies on the role ...
Biology underlying pair bonding and parenting may not be dictated by oxytocin receptors, study shows
Turning a decades-old dogma on its head, new research from scientists at UC San Francisco and Stanford Medicine shows that the receptor for oxytocin, a hormone considered essential to forming social ...
Let’s turn to animals to answer this question. Just like animals, our attraction is guided by traits that would make someone ...
Prairie voles have long been heralded as models of monogamy. Now, a study suggests that the “love hormone” once thought essential for their bonding — oxytocin — might not be so necessary after all.
The first brain-wide map of regions that are active in prairie voles during mating and pair bonding reveal that bonding voles experience a storm of brain activity distributed across 68 distinct brain ...
Monogamous prairie voles lacking receptors for the “love hormone” oxytocin still bond with their mates and their young – contradicting long-held assumptions about how essential the hormone is for ...
Turning a decades-old dogma on its head, new research from scientists at UC San Francisco and Stanford Medicine shows that the receptor for oxytocin, a hormone considered essential to forming social ...
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