Sentences with phrase «vasopressin influences»

Although most of our work has focused on non-mammalian systems, we have also begun to investigate how vasopressin influences functions related to social communication in humans.

Not exact matches

And, yes, women have vasopressin receptors, too, but for reasons that remain unknown it doesn't seem to influence their behavior as much, Starr says.

Serotonin and arginine - vasopressin act in opposite ways in males and females to influence aggression and dominance, new research indicates.

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.

We are also exploring how intranasal vasopressin, which crosses the blood brain barrier in humans, influences subjective responses to faces in men and women and, through a collaboration with James Rilling at Emory University, how vasopressin modulates brain responses to those stimuli.

Thompson RR, George K, Walton JC, Orr SP, Benson J. (2006) Sex - specific influences of vasopressin on human social communication.

A complimentary line of research explores how vasopressin modulates social perceptions in humans, and through a collaboration with a colleague at Emory University, where within our own brains it produces such influences.

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.

The known diuretic effects of caffeine and alcohol, because of their action in inhibiting the release of arginine vasopressin (20, 21), would influence the response to ingested drinks that contain caffeine or alcohol.

It has been reported that maternal PPD is a predictor of paternal one since the first is higher during the three months postpartum.8 Based on the existing knowledge of maternal PPD, literature suggests that also paternal PPD could be related with hormonal changes regarding alteration of testosterone, estrogen, vasopressin, prolactin and cortisol levels.10 In addition to mood disturbances, high parenting distress levels could also be considered a important factor compromising the parenting competence and the daily child care.17 Parenting stress is a construct related to the parent role and influenced by expectations and perceptions of child characteristics, parent characteristics and parental - infant interaction quality.