Thursday 16 April 2015

How Love Hormone, Oxytocin Make Mothers Understand, Tend to Their Offspring's Needs

Neuroscientists at NYU Langone Medical Center have unraveled how the "love hormone" oxytocin acts on brain cells to make females understand and tend to their offspring's needs. The findings could lead to a better understanding of how oxytocin, which is better known for its role in inducing sexual attraction and orgasm, and other hormones could be used to treat behavioral problems resulting from disease or trauma to the brain. Assistant Professor Robert ...

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