Oxytocin's routes in social behavior: Into the 21st century

• Main Author: Elissar Andari (auth)
• Other Authors: Lisa A. Parr (auth), Alaine Keebaugh (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2015
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; evolved functions; Adaptive Behavior; oxytocin polymorphisms and social behavior; Oxytocin; rhesus macaques; Rodents; human behavior; precision medicine; psychiatric disorders; socially-reinforcement learning
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Our brain is endowed with an incredible capacity to be social, to trust, to cooperate, to be altruistic, to feel empathy and love. Nevertheless, the biological underpinnings of such behaviors remain partially hardwired. Seminal research in rodents has provided important insights on the identificatio...