Dendrites Found To Be Senders Of “Trust” Hormone During Suckling

When a mother is breast-feeding her child, her brain is performing some interesting background operations. A team of researchers from China, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom have modeled a process that shows how suckling leads to a buildup of oxytocin - the “trust” hormone - in the mother’s brain. Their study is published in the July 18 issue of the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology.

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Filed under: Endocrinology on July 25th, 2008