Sentences with phrase «montane voles»

If they are genetically deprived of oxytocin, monogamous, maternal, loving prairie voles (a species of rodent) turn into another subspecies — the heartless, promiscuous, pup abusing montane voles.

The brains of montane voles, on the other hand, have far fewer vasopressin receptors and therefore make much weaker connections between pair bonding and pleasure.

The architecture suggested that behaviors associated with oxytocin release would feel good in the brains of the prairie voles but leave the montane voles relatively unaffected.

Several years later, Tom Insel, a former colleague of Carter's who is now president of the National Institute of Mental Health, began a comparative study analyzing the brains of prairie voles and their less monogamous cousins, the montane voles.

Are some of us walking around with prairie vole brains and others are stuck with the wandering eye of a montane vole?

Not so with the prairie vole's close genetic cousin, the philandering montane vole.