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Oxytocin May Forge Bonds Between Dads and Children
The latest research suggests the 'love hormone' could also help in treating conditions such as autism, schizophrenia and addiction that are triggered by...
Stand By Your Man: Physical Proximity May Help Oxytocin to Keep Men in Relationships Faithful
Is the love hormone the antidote to infidelity Researchers are doing their best to find out Being faithful to a significant other clearly involves a lot more...
How a Squirt of Oxytocin Could Ease Marital Spats and Boost Social Sensitivity
Want to make those inevitable fights with your partner less troublesome? A spritz of the “love hormone” oxytocin could help, by encouraging cooperation in men...
Could the ‘Cuddle Chemical’ Oxytocin Improve Male Sexual Function?
Watch out, Viagra! The hormone oxytocin may also improve sexual function — at least in men with Asperger’s syndrome — according to a published case report...
Can Oxytocin Ease Shyness?
For centuries artists have tried to capture the essence of love, and now scientists may have found it in the brain. Known as oxytocin (not to be confused...
Q&A: Neuroscientist Larry Young on Sex, Drugs & Love Among Voles
He doesn't claim to have the answer for why fools fall in love, but psychiatrist Larry Young hopes studying prairie voles will help.
Hazelden Introduces Antiaddiction Medications into Recovery for First Time
Recovery from opioid addiction will no longer mean complete abstinence from drugs
‘Cuddle Chemical’ Oxytocin Relieves Alcohol Withdrawal
The “love hormone” oxytocin can relieve symptoms of withdrawal in people recovering from alcoholism, according to a small new study. Research has long suggested...
Naomi Wolf's Vagina Aside, What Neuroscience Really Says About Female Desire
Wolf's oversimplification of neuroscience threatens to perpetuate a psychological myth: that human beings — especially women — are automatons, enslaved by brain...
A Blood Test to Predict Everlasting Love?
If you want to know if he loves you so, a new study suggests that the secret may not be in his kiss, but in his far less romantic-sounding blood levels of...
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Well: The' Love Hormone' as Sports Enhancer
The brain hormone oxytocin facilitates the ability to read other people's emotions and deepens bonds between group members. It is also almost certainly an essential, if...
Hormone Oxytocin May Help Keep Men Faithful
Love, trust, cuddling... those are words not only associated with successful relationships but also with the hormone oxytocin, which, according to a new German study, may...
