A synthetic version of the hormone oxytocin has been shown to improve social responsiveness among some children with autism.
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Increasing autistic children’s levels of vasopressin, a hormone that regulates social behaviour, could help treat the social deficits common to autism, research suggests.
A study has shown that alcohol and oxytocin, often dubbed “the love hormone” are more similar than we thought.
Levels of a male sex hormone known to influence aggression and a “love” hormone that promotes bonding both rise in traditional hunters headed home after the kill. What’s going on?
Imagine a pill that nullified some of the nasty effects of alcohol. A new study looking at oxytocin suggests such a pill might be possible.
Addictive behaviour, such as drug and alcohol abuse, could be a result of a poorly developed oxytocin system. Dr Buisman-Pijlman…
There’s this gene that about half of all people carry. It’s a pretty nasty gene – it massively increases the risk of the carrier being a murderer or a murder victim, going to jail or dying in an accident…
Things have changed. Much of the time we used to spend chatting with friends or strangers in person is now spent tweeting, texting or updating our Facebook status. Although technology allows us to rapidly…
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Deputy Director, The Kids Research Institute Australia, Professor of Autism Research, The University of Western Australia
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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Professor of Psychology, University of Stirling
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Professor of Psychopharmacology and NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Professor, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University and Burnet Institute, Burnet Institute
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University
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Postdoctoral Scholar of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor and Head, Gut-Brain Axis Laboratory, RMIT University
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Professor of Religion, Psychology and Culture, Vanderbilt University
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Professor and Director, National Drug Research Institute, Curtin University
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Scientia Professor of Evolution, UNSW
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NHMRC Peter Doherty Biomedical Fellow at the School of Psychology, University of Sydney
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Academic Program Director (Health), The University of Melbourne
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Kids Research Institute Australia
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Evolutionary Biologist, ARC Future Fellow, UNSW