When too much of a good thing is bad: Chronic oxytocin, development, and social impairments

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 160-161

  Young, Larry J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; COHABITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LABORATORY TEST; MENTAL DISEASE; NOTE; PARTNER PREFERENCE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; OXYTOCIN; PAIR BOND; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS;

EID: 84879997898     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.05.015     Document Type: Note

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