Oxytocin, a neuropeptide known for its role in reproduction and socioemotional processes,
may hold promise as a therapeutic agent in treating social impairments in patient …

The brain anxiety network is composed of a number of interconnected cortical regions that
detect threats and execute appropriate defensive responses via projections to the shell of …

Social feelings have conceptual and empirical connections with affect and emotion. In this
review, we discuss how they relate to cognition, emotion, behavior and well-being. We …

Social behaviors, such as mating, fighting, and parenting, are fundamental for survival of any
vertebrate species. All members of a species express social behaviors in a stereotypical and …

The neural basis of abnormal social behavior in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) remains
incompletely understood. Here we used two complementary but independent brain-wide …

Oxytocin increases the salience of both positive and negative social contexts and it is
thought that these diverse actions on behavior are mediated in part through circuit-specific …

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 …

Complex behavioral phenotyping techniques are becoming more prevalent in the field of
behavioral neuroscience, and thus methods for manipulating neuronal activity must be …

Oxytocin is currently being considered as a novel therapeutic for anxiety disorders due to its
ability to promote affiliative behaviors. In the nucleus accumbens (NAc) activation of oxytocin …

Oxytocin neurones in the hypothalamus are activated by stressful stimuli and food intake.
The oxytocin receptor is located in various brain regions, including the sensory information …