Oxytocin, the love hormone that produces bonding between mothers and daughters, as well as sexual partners, may help to reduce the symptoms of autism, according to a new study. French researchers found that high functioning autistic patients were better able to read social cues and facial expressions after inhaling oxytocin spray.
This most recent study seems [...]
Oxytocin is a powerful hormone that can even override a person’s rational decision making – at least that is what women are being warned in a number of online articles covering the Trust Hormone Oxytocin.
The News of the Worldadvises women seeking long-term committed relationships to beware the perils of the oxytocin induced ’sex haze’
There’s nothing [...]
Helen Fisher at Oprah.com explains how even though men and women have evolved to define intimacy in different ways, a blast of oxytocin in the male or female brain, will bring feelings of both intimacy and trust..
‘And get the oxytocin flowing. Oxytocin is a brain chemical that produces feelings of trust and attachment. Men get [...]
Could oxytocin, the trust hormone, be used as a potential treatment of autism? Researchers in Australia think so and are currently trialling the hormone in the hope that it might cure one of the core and debilitating symptoms of autistic spectrum disorders – the difficulty in recognising and responding to emotion in others. Oxytocin has been found [...]
Boffins have spent a lot of time recently studying kissing – exploring the chemicals released (and even swapped) when girl and boy join lips. A study at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania found that the ‘trust hormone’ oxytocin rose in men during the act of kissing but, surprisingly, didn’t in women. The stress hormone cortisal, on [...]
