Oxytocin and the Social Brain: Beware the Complexity

Bartels, A

doi:10.1038/npp.2012.71

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Oxytocin and the Social Brain: Beware the Complexity

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Bartels, A
Department Physiology of Cognitive Processes, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society;

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Bartels, A. (2012). Oxytocin and the Social Brain: Beware the Complexity. Neuropsychopharmacology, 37(8), 1795-1796. doi:10.1038/npp.2012.71.

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Abstract

Love, or in more functional–biological terms, social attachment or bonding, is the evolutionary key to the existence of species like humans: our babies’ survival depends entirely on parental care, which in turn provides the opportunity to transmit a vast amount of knowledge from one generation to the next. It is therefore no surprise that the brain's mechanisms that evolved to ensure parent–child bonding are powerful and under genetic control.