The many facets of the oxytocin (OXT) system of the brain and periphery elicited nearly
25,000 publications since 1930 (see, as listed in PubMed), which revealed central roles for …

Drug addiction represents a dramatic dysregulation of motivational circuits that is caused by
a combination of exaggerated incentive salience and habit formation, reward deficits and …

The neurohypophysial peptide oxytocin (OT) and OT-like hormones facilitate reproduction in
all vertebrates at several levels. The major site of OT gene expression is the magnocellular …

The purpose of this paper is to review existing behavioral and neuroendocrine perspectives
on social attachment and love. Both love and social attachments function to facilitate …

primate research suggests that affiliation is a highly complex construct. studies of primate
affiliation demonstrate the need to distinguish between various affiliative behaviors, consider …

This paper proposes that mammals exhibit three primary emotion categories for mating and
reproduction:(1) the sex drive, or lust, characterized by the craving for sexual gratification;(2) …

Prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) are described here as a model system in which it is
possible to examine, within the context of natural history, the proximate processes regulating …

Dopamine is an important neuromodulator that exerts widespread effects on the central
nervous system (CNS) function. Disruption in dopaminergic neurotransmission can have …

Although oxytocin (OT) and dopamine (DA) have been implicated in pair bond formation in
monogamous prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster), the nature of potential interactions …

There is a considerable literature on the neurobiology of reward, based largely on studies of
addiction or substance abuse. This review considers the possibility that the neural circuits …