Oxytocin enhances brain reward system responses in men viewing the face of their female partner

Autor: Birgit Stoffel-Wagner, Andrea Wille, Dirk Scheele, Wolfgang Maier, René Hurlemann, Keith M. Kendrick, Onur Güntürkün, Benjamin Becker

Publikováno v: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 110(50), 20308-20313 (2013). doi:10.1073/pnas.1314190110

The biological mechanisms underlying long-term partner bonds in humans are unclear. The evolutionarily conserved neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) is associated with the formation of partner bonds in some species via interactions with brain dopamine reward

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https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1314190110