Turning a decades-old dogma on its head, new research from scientists at UC San Francisco and Stanford Medicine shows that the receptor for oxytocin, a hormone considered essential to forming social ...

There's more to love than a single hormone. That's the conclusion of a study of prairie voles that were genetically altered to ignore signals from the "love hormone" oxytocin. The study, published in ...

Share on Pinterest In a study in voles, the so-called love hormone was not necessary to promote pair bonding, but why? Image credit: Anastasia Mihaylova (Shpara)/Stocksy. Previous studies on the role ...

There's more to love than a single hormone. That's the conclusion of a study of prairie voles that were genetically altered to ignore signals from the "love hormone" oxytocin. The study, published in ...

The "love hormone" oxytocin might not play the critical role in forming social bonds that scientists have long believed, a new animal study suggests. Prairie voles bred without receptors for oxytocin ...

Utah State University neuroscientist Sara Freeman conducts systematic investigations of coyote pair-bonding behavior and the neurochemical systems of the coyote brain. LOGAN, UTAH, USA -- Why do we ...

Most people in the USA identify marriage as a natural goal for humans, with love as a necessary component. After all, Frank Sinatra sang “love and marriage, love and marriage, go together like a horse ...