A Potential role for oxytocin in the intergenerational transmission of secure attachment

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 34, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 2621-2622

  Rilling, James K ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; OXYTOCIN;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MEMORY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STRESS;

HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; OXYTOCIN;

EID: 70449535511     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2009.136     Document Type: Note

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