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

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

Oxytocin is an important regulator of the social brain. In some animal models of autism,
notably in Magel2 tm1. 1Mus-deficient mice, peripheral administration of oxytocin in infancy …

Background The reproductive hormone oxytocin facilitates labour, birth and postpartum
adaptations for women and newborns. Synthetic oxytocin is commonly given to induce or …

Background The neuropeptide oxytocin regulates mammalian social behavior. Disruptions
in oxytocin signaling are a feature of many psychopathologies. One commonly studied …

Dozens of studies, most conducted in the last four decades, have implicated oxytocin, as
well as vasopressin and their receptors, in processes that mediate selective sociality and the …

Oxytocin is a peptide molecule with a multitude of physiological and behavioral functions.
Based on its association with reproduction-including social bonding, sexual behavior, birth …

Oxytocin is one of the most commonly used medications during labour and delivery. Recent
insights from basic neuroscience research suggest that the uterotonic effects of oxytocin may …

Early‐life experience influences social and emotional behaviour in adulthood. Affiliative
tactile stimuli in early life facilitate the development of social and emotional behaviour …

Background The oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) is regulated, in part, by DNA methylation.
This mechanism has implications for uterine contractility during labor and for prevention or …