Tag: Oxytocin

  • Nation & World

    Take it from the experts, a pet can change your life

    The health benefits of animal companions have been supported by science but not society, with the disadvantaged facing similar barriers to pet ownership as they do in securing proper healthcare, experts said at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health on Monday.

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    Megan Mueller, Tufts Professor from the Tufts Vet School, left, and HMS Professor Beth Frates
  • Nation & World

    A volume control for the brain 

    The brain is awash in sights, sounds, smells, and other stimuli every moment. How can it sort through the flood of information to decide what is important and what can be relegated to the background? Harvard researchers found evidence that oxytocin, popularly known as the “love hormone,” plays a crucial role in helping the brain…

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  • Nation & World

    Often, we are what we were

    In his latest book, professor emeritus Jerome Kagan examines the temperaments of babies and how they can be predictors of adult behaviors.

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