Sentences with phrase «vasopressin act»
Serotonin and arginine - vasopressin act in opposite ways in males and females to influence aggression and dominance, new research indicates.
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A team of researchers led by Dr. Elliott Albers, director of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience and Regents» Professor of Neuroscience at Georgia State University, and graduate student Joseph I. Terranova, has discovered that serotonin (5 - HT) and arginine - vasopressin (AVP) act in opposite ways in males and females to influence aggression and dominance.
His research has revealed that brain chemicals such as oxytocin and vasopressin regulate the neural processing of social information and promote the formation of social bonds by acting in specific neural pathways.
In my lab, we explore the molecular, cellular, and behavioral mechanisms through which two types of molecules, sex steroids and neuropeptides in the vasopressin / oxytocin family, act within those circuits to influence social behaviors associated with reproduction.