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Developmental perspectives on oxytocin and vasopressin.
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- The impact of intranasal oxytocin administration and social observation on time perception and task execution in a simple motor task.Psychological research · 2026Trial
- Parent-Training with Kangaroo Care Impacts Infant Neurophysiological Development & Mother-Infant Neuroendocrine Activity.Infant behavior & development · 2020Trial
- Early-life environmental enrichment reduces anxiety and induces sex-dependent neuroplasticity in hypothalamic oxytocin and vasopressin neurons.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2026Article
- Acute and persistent neuroendocrine and behavioral alterations after social fear conditioning in adolescent male mice.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2026Article
- Exploring the relationship betweenFrontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Oxytocin Deficiency in Childhood and Adolescence: Clinical Features, Diagnostic Challenges and Therapeutic Perspectives.Current issues in molecular biology · 2025Review
- Regional differences in oxytocin and vasopressin 1a receptor functionality in mouse embryonic brain development.Neuroscience letters · 2025Article
- Oxytocin signaling regulates maternally directed behavior during early life.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2025Article
- A survey of hypothalamic phenotypes identifies molecular and behavioral consequences of MYT1L haploinsufficiency in male and female mice.Hormones and behavior · 2025Article
- Stress and parental behaviors.Neuroscience research · 2025Review
- How Do Common Marmosets Maintain the Balance Between Response Execution and Action Inhibition?American journal of primatology · 2025Article
- AgRP neurons mediate activity-dependent development of oxytocin connectivity and autonomic regulation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Oxytocin as a treatment for alcohol use disorder and heavy drinking: A narrative review.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2024Review
- Delivery by cesarean section leads to heavier adult bodyweight in prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).Hormones and behavior · 2024Article
- Comparative analysis of gonadal hormone receptor expression in the postnatal house mouse, meadow vole, and prairie vole brain.Hormones and behavior · 2024Article
- Pharmacological Treatment of Cognitive Impairment Associated With Schizophrenia: State of the Art and Future Perspectives.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2024Article
- Close encounters with oxytocin.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2023Review
- The DNA methylation landscape of the human oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR): data-driven clusters and their relation to gene expression and childhood adversity.Translational psychiatry · 2023Article
- Oxytocin receptor antagonism during early vocal learning reduces song preference and imitation in zebra finches.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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Abstract
The related neuropeptides oxytocin and vasopressin are involved in species-typical behavior, including social recognition behavior, maternal behavior, social bonding, communication, and aggression. A wealth of evidence from animal models demonstrates significant modulation of adult social behavior by both of these neuropeptides and their receptors. Over the last decade, there has been a flood of studies in humans also implicating a role for these neuropeptides in human social behavior. Despite popular assumptions that oxytocin is a molecule of social bonding in the infant brain, less mechanistic research emphasis has been placed on the potential role of these neuropeptides in the developmental emergence of the neural substrates of behavior. This review summarizes what is known and assumed about the developmental influence of these neuropeptides and outlines the important unanswered questions and testable hypotheses. There is tremendous translational need to understand the functions of these neuropeptides in mammalian experience-dependent development of the social brain. The activity of oxytocin and vasopressin during development should inform our understanding of individual, sex, and species differences in social behavior later in life.
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