Oxytocin-and vasopressin-related systems are present in invertebrate and vertebrate
bilaterian animals, including humans, and exhibit conserved neuroanatomical and …

Oxytocin (OT), a nonapeptide, has a variety of functions. Despite extensive studies on OT
over past decades, our understanding of its neural functions and their regulation remains …

In the last several decades, sophisticated experimental techniques have been used to
determine the neurobiology of the oxytocin and vasopressin systems in rodents. Using a …

The Parental Brain: Mechanisms, Development, and Evolution presents a comprehensive
analysis of how the brain regulates parental behavior in nonhuman animals and in humans …

Monogamy as a social system has been both a scientific puzzle and a sociocultural issue for
decades. In this review, we examine social monogamy from a comparative perspective with …

Like humans, common marmoset monkeys utilize family cooperation for infant care, but the
neural mechanisms underlying primate parental behaviors remain largely unknown. We …

Social isolation is a major source of stress and can lead to activation of the hypothalamic-
pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. The presence of a close social partner can reduce the …

Parental behavior in mammals is innate, but it is also facilitated by social experience,
specifically social interactions between the parent and infant. Social interactions with infants …

Calcitonin receptor (Calcr) and its brain ligand amylin in the medial preoptic area (MPOA)
are found to be critically involved in infant care and social contact behaviors in mice. In …

Across the animal kingdom, parents in many species devote extraordinary effort toward
caring for offspring, often risking their lives and exhausting limited resources. Understanding …