ArticleCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2015
Neurobiological mechanisms of social attachment and pair bonding.
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90 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 170 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Re-wiring of the bonded brain: Gene expression among pair bonded female prairie voles changes as they transition to motherhood.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2024Article
- Social experiences shape song preference learning independently of developmental exposure to song.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
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- Pair bonding and disruption impact lung transcriptome in monogamous Peromyscus californicus.BMC genomics · 2023Article
- Emotions and courtship help bonded pairs cooperate, but emotional agents are vulnerable to deceit.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Behavioral convergence in defense behaviors in pair bonded individuals correlates with neuroendocrine receptors in the medial amygdala.Behavioural brain research · 2023Article
- Motherhood and DREADD manipulation of the nucleus accumbens weaken established pair bonds in female prairie voles.Hormones and behavior · 2023Article
- Neural and behavioral reactions to partners and strangers in monogamous female titi monkeys (Plecturocebus cupreus).Behavioural brain research · 2023Article
- Oxytocin Levels Increase and Anxiety Decreases in Mothers Who Sing and Talk to Their Premature Infants during a Painful Procedure.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Species have evolved diverse social behavior and mating strategies in response to selective forces in their environments. While promiscuity is the predominant mating strategy across most vertebrate taxa, convergent evolution of monogamous mating systems has occurred multiple times across distant lineages. Monogamous behavior is thought to be facilitated by a neurobiological capacity to form and maintain selective social attachments, or pair bonds, with a mating partner. The neural mechanisms of pair bonding behavior have been investigated most rigorously in
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