ReviewNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2022
Sex, love and oxytocin: Two metaphors and a molecule.
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- Rethinking sexual pleasure in research, health care and society.Nature reviews. Urology · 2026Review
- Romantic love as regulatory co-option of maternal-bonding circuitry: a testable genetic account.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Regional differences in oxytocin and vasopressin 1a receptor functionality in mouse embryonic brain development.Neuroscience letters · 2025Article
- Oxytocin.Current biology : CB · 2025Review
- Does a microbial-endocrine interplay shape love-associated emotions in humans? A hypothesis.mSystems · 2025Review
- Oxytocin, Vasopressin and Stress: A Hormetic Perspective.Current issues in molecular biology · 2025Review
- The psychedelic-peptide paradox: a hormetic hypothesis.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Review
- Lateralized local circuit tuning in female mouse auditory cortex.Neuroscience research · 2025Article
- Effects of human-animal interaction on salivary and urinary oxytocin in children and dogs.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Article
- Typological classification of attitudes toward premarital sexual behavior among Chinese undergraduates.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Fantastic voyage:Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Review
- Intranasal Oxytocin and Pain Reduction: Testing a Social Cognitive Mediation Model.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Oxytocin: A developmental journey.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2023Review
- A long and winding road: My personal journey to oxytocin with no return.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2023Review
- Diversity in animal models is key to advancing human health: A commentary on Blanchard, Carter, and Lambert's reviews.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2023Review
- Close encounters with oxytocin.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2023Review
- Comparative physiological anthropogeny: exploring molecular underpinnings of distinctly human phenotypes.Physiological reviews · 2023Review
- Exploring a Possible Interplay between Schizophrenia, Oxytocin, and Estrogens: A Narrative Review.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- The evolved nest, oxytocin functioning, and prosocial development.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
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Abstract
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 consequences of early experience. Oxytocin is critical for the capacity to experience emotional safety and healthy sexuality. Oxytocin also plays a central role in almost every aspect of physical and mental health, including the coordination of sociality and loving relationships with physiological reactions to challenges across the lifespan. Species, including prairie voles, that share with humans the capacity for selective social bonds have been a particularly rich source of insights into the behavioral importance of peptides. The purpose of this historical review is to describe the discovery of a central role for oxytocin in behavioral interactions associated with love, and in the capacity to use sociality to anticipate and cope with challenges across the lifespan - a process that here is called "sociostasis."
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