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Oxytocin: A developmental journey
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This first-person narrative article (species not specified) describes the author's career studying the neuropeptide hormone oxytocin, beginning with research on primate families and expanding into oxytocin's role in family-oriented behaviors such as pair bonding and parenting in prairie voles, humans, and other primates. The author describes starting as a post-doc with Dr. C. Sue Carter, developing interest in oxytocin during development and in clinical manipulation of oxytocin, and continuing this work as a faculty member at the University of California, Davis. The abstract does not report specific experimental data or numerical findings.
Abstract
The neuropeptide hormone oxytocin is involved in many processes in our bodies, linking our social lives to our internal states. I started out my career studying primate families, an interest that expanded into the role of oxytocin in family-oriented behaviors such as pair bonding and parenting in prairie voles, humans, and other primates. Starting as a post-doc with Dr. C. Sue Carter, I also became interested in the role of oxytocin during development and the way that we manipulate oxytocin clinically. During that post-doc and then as a faculty member at the University of California, Davis, I have worked on a number of these questions.
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