Many social behaviours are evolutionarily conserved and are essential for the healthy
development of an individual. The neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) is crucial for the fine-tuned …

Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are diagnosed in 1/100 children worldwide, based on two
core symptoms: deficits in social interaction and communication, and stereotyped …

Mammalian infants depend on parental care for survival, with numerous consequences for
their behavioral development. We investigated the epigenetic and neurodevelopmental …

Sex is ubiquitous and variable throughout the animal kingdom. Historically, scientists have
used reductionist methodologies that rely on a priori sex categorizations, in which two …

Dozens of studies, most conducted in the last four decades, have implicated oxytocin, as
well as vasopressin and their receptors, in processes that mediate selective sociality and the …

Increasing evidence suggests that intact social bonds are protective against age-related
morbidity, while bond disruption and social isolation increase the risk for multiple age …

Oxytocin has long been thought to play a substantial role in social behaviors, such as social
attachment and parenting behavior. However, how oxytocin neurons respond to social and …

Synopsis In 1929, August Krogh wrote that for every question in biology, there is a species
or collection of species in which pursuing such questions is the most appropriate for …

How do brains create all our different colors, pains, and other conscious qualities? These
various qualia are the most essential aspects of consciousness. Yet standard neuroscience …

Oxytocin, a neuropeptide hormone, is indispensable for milk ejection during nursing and is
important for uterine contractions during parturition. The exact functions of oxytocin in …