Oxytocin is a pleiotropic, peptide hormone with broad implications for general health,
adaptation, development, reproduction, and social behavior. Endogenous oxytocin and …

According to the grounded perspective, cognition emerges from the interaction of classic
cognitive processes with the modalities, the body, and the environment. Rather than being …

The neuropeptide oxytocin acts as a hormone and a neuromodulator, influencing a
multitude of human social behaviors, including reproduction. During childbirth and the …

Oxytocin and vasopressin are peptide hormones secreted from the pituitary that are well
known for their peripheral endocrine effects on childbirth/nursing and blood pressure/urine …

Objectives Social relationships throughout lifespan are critical for health and wellbeing.
Oxytocin, often called the 'hormone of attachment'has been suggested as playing an …

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 …

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 …

In mammals, odor information detected by olfactory sensory neurons is converted to a
topographic map of activated glomeruli in the olfactory bulb. Mitral cells and tufted cells …

Schizophrenia is a form of mental disorder that is behaviorally characterized by abnormal
behavior, such as social function deficits or other behaviors that are disconnected from …

During pandemics, governments take drastic actions to prevent the spreading of the
disease, as seen during the present COVID-19 crisis. Sanctions of lockdown, social …