Sentences with phrase «prairie vole brains»
Are some of us walking around with prairie vole brains and others are stuck with the wandering eye of a montane vole?
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«Some prairie vole brains are better wired for sexual fidelity.»
Previous research indicates oxytocin — a hormone that promotes social and maternal bonding — acts in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) of the prairie vole brain to encourage consoling behavior.
Not exact matches
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.
Load up on adrenaline, or cool down with oxytocin About 20 years ago, neuroendocrinologist Sue Carter began examining the brains of prairie voles to understand why the small rodent indigenous to the midwestern plains of the United States is one of the natural world's great romantics.
Like those of the monogamous prairie vole, human oxytocin receptors are located in several dopamine - rich regions of the brain, suggesting that oxytocin is embedded in our reward circuitry.
qBrain is built on an automated technology platform that will be used to perform similar analyses of other mammalian brains, from prairie voles to marmoset monkeys and humans.
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.
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — When prairie voles choose a mate, there's no turning back — the «love chemical» oxytocin increases in their brains and they devote themselves to only each other.
By simply activating certain circuits in the brains of female prairie voles, researchers made them «fall in love» with specific males.
The researchers next investigated whether there were any changes in the brains of the male prairie voles.
Activating circuits in the brains of female prairie voles can make them «fall in love».
So when prairie voles mate, their bodies produce vasopressin, which causes their brains to reward the vole couple with a flood of pleasurable emotions, sealing the social bond.