Scientists interested in oxytocin (the hormone, not the addictive painkiller). Jan. 11, 2012 — -- Sometimes it seems like what the world really needs is a love drug. But what if we could just ...

Using nature's strategies in the development of new drugs Dimerization of the human neuropeptides oxytocin and vasopressin can produce new types of bioactive molecules ...

Umutcan Kayıkçı, Erdem Fadıloğlu, Ayşe Çiğdem Bayrak, Edip Alptuğ Kır, İrem Hergüner, Kheyransa İskandarli, Özgür Deren, Comparative analysis of antidiuretic effects of oxytocin and ...

The “cuddle chemical”. The “moral molecule”. Oxytocin has quite a reputation – but much of what we thought about the so-called “love hormone” may be wrong. Oxytocin is made by the ...

Despite internet claims of Love Portion No. 9 to enhance attraction through chemical oxytocin and pheromones, Dr. Breuning, professor emerita at California State University, and docent at the ...

Whenever the hormone oxytocin makes the news—and it does so regularly—the media can’t help but refer to it as the “love hormone”, “cuddle chemical” or “moral molecule”.

Oxytocin, a naturally occurring chemical in the brain, plays a crucial role in various cognitive functions, including memory. A recent study revealed that the activation of neurons in the ...

All of this becomes heavily ironic when you consider that the chemical in question – a hormone called oxytocin – is often billed as the “hormone of love”, and even marketed as “Liquid ...