Known as the “love” or “happy” hormone, oxytocin can strongly impact your emotions. Here are 12 ways oxytocin may affect you and your romantic, family, and social relationships. Researchers in one ...

Neuroscientist Joanna Dabrowska has gotten a $1.7 million award from the National Institute of Mental Health as part of a five-year grant to the Icahn School at Mount Sinai.

Clinical trials are testing whether oxytocin, sometimes called the 'love hormone' for its role in intimacy and social bonding, has potential as a treatment for anxiety, depression and post-traumatic ...

You may want to branch out from dinner-and-a-movie. According to a new study, a different type of date night can bring couples closer together. The research, which was recently published in the ...

The hormone oxytocin has come under intensive study in light of emerging evidence that its release contributes to the social bonding that occurs between lovers, friends, and colleagues. Oxytocin also ...

Scientists have given lions a dose of the love hormone oxytocin to see what impact it would have on this vulnerable apex predator. Oxytocin is a hormone that, in humans, is associated with childbirth, ...

Here is the one thing I need to say before we get into the weeds, just so we don’t have any panic attacks: If you have ...

Have you ever wondered how easily you perceive and interpret your newborn’s cues and needs? Oxytocin, also known as the “love ...

What is love? Scientists want to know, too. But, it turns out, they may have been looking in the wrong places. Stanford Medicine researchers and colleagues at two other institutions report surprising ...

Pregnancy is a physiological state which subjects the female body to a range of extreme changes in form and function. One of these is in the level of oxytocin. Oxytocin is a small peptide hormone, ...