Oxytocin and the neural mechanisms regulating social cognition and affiliative behavior.

By Heather E. Ross, L. Young. Frontiers in neuroendocrinology (Print), 2009

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Effects of isotocin on social responses in a cooperatively breeding fish (2012, background): “Oxytocin may act in the brain to divert limited attention towards social interactions and away from other nonsocial activities (Ross & Young 2009), and therefore, is germane to the neurobiology of social decision making (O’Connell & Hofmann 2011).”
Psychological Stress in Childhood and Susceptibility to the Chronic Diseases of Aging: Moving Towards a Model of Behavioral and Biological Mechanisms (2011, background): “OT is a hypothalamic neuropeptide implicated in a broad array of interpersonal processes, including affiliation, nurturant behavior, social cognition, emotion recognition, and feelings of love, trust, and security (H. E. Ross & Young, 2009).”
Evoked axonal oxytocin release in the central amygdala attenuates fear response. (2012, neutral): “Such limitations could be overcome by long-range axonal projections of hypothalamic OT neurons (Ross and Young, 2009).”
How does social support enhance resilience in the trauma-exposed individual? (2015, background): “In humans, the neuropeptide oxytocin is released during social situations and promotes prosocial behavior by increasing social recognition and feelings of affiliation and trust (see Ross and Young 2009 for a review).”
The pros and cons of phytoestrogens (2010, neutral): “It is not yet clear what the functional significance of this might be but the PVN is the primary site of oxytocin (OT) production, a peptide hormone important for social behavior and the facilitation of sexual behavior [296,33,229].”
Oxytocin and social affiliation in humans. (2012, background): “Brain regions receiving OT projections include the medial preoptic area (MPOA), the BNST, the lateral septum, the nucleus accumbens (NAcc), the amgydala, and the hippocampus as well as ventrally, the ventral tegmental area, solitary tract nuclei, and the spinal cord (Ross and Young, 2009).”
The Neuroendocrinology of Social Isolation (2014, background): “However, interested readers may wish to consult recent reviews of oxytocin and its effects on social endocrinology and behavior (e.g., Heinrichs et al. 2009, Insel 2010, Love 2014, Olff et al. 2013, Ross & Young 2009, Taylor 2006).”
Natural variations in maternal and paternal care are associated with systematic changes in oxytocin following parent-infant contact. (2010, background): “…in maternal and paternal care are associated with systematic ocrinology (2010), doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2010.01.013 d. 2 R. Feldman et al. maternal behavior increase OT receptor binding in brain areas central for parenting and the reward parents derive from their infants (Ross and Young, 2009).”
A common allele in the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) impacts prosocial temperament and human hypothalamic-limbic structure and function (2010, background): “Based on the neuroanatomy of the oxytocinergic system (2), and prior evidence linking these structures to the pathophysiology of social dysfunction (31, 32), we were particularly interested in the effect of OXTR genotype in the hypothalamus and amygdala.”
The Neurobiology of Human Attachments. (2017, neutral): “The coactivation of D2-expressing neurons in the NA by OT enables neurons specifically suited to identify sensory–motor reward patterns to employ reward computations of D2 neurons to encode the temporal patterns of social reward, as shown in rhesus macaques [26,27].”