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How oxytocin makes a mom: Hormone teaches maternal brain to respond to offspring’s needs

April 15, 2015 by

Neuroscientists have discovered how the powerful brain hormone oxytocin acts on individual brain cells to prompt specific social behaviors -- findings that could lead to a better understanding of how oxytocin and other hormones could be used to treat behavioral problems resulting from disease or trauma to the brain.

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