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Parental Depression: Animal Models of an Adverse Life Event

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Implications of Immediate-Early Gene Induction in the Brain Following Sexual Stimulation of Female and Male Rodents

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Acute effects of steroid hormones and neuropeptides on human social-emotional behavior: A review of single administration studies

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Reduced plasma oxytocin levels in female patients with borderline personality disorder

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Sexual Experience Promotes Adult Neurogenesis in the Hippocampus Despite an Initial Elevation in Stress Hormones

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Effects of Adverse Early‐Life Events on Aggression and Anti‐Social Behaviours in Animals and Humans

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Evolving nonapeptide mechanisms of gregariousness and social diversity in birds

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Breaking bonds in male prairie vole: Long-term effects on emotional and social behavior, physiology, and neurochemistry

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Roles of Oxytocin Neurones in the Control of Stress, Energy Metabolism, and Social Behaviour

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Co‐shared genetics and possible risk gene pathway partially explain the comorbidity of schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome

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Displays of paternal mouse pup retrieval following communicative interaction with maternal mates

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Emotion and Mood Adaptations in the Peripartum Female: Complementary Contributions of GABA and Oxytocin

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Subtle modifications to oxytocin produce ligands that retain potency and improved selectivity across species

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Mutual influences between partners’ hormones shape conflict dialog and relationship duration at the initiation of romantic love

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Forced swimming-induced oxytocin release into blood and brain: Effects of adrenalectomy and corticosterone treatment

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The endocrinology of human caregiving and its intergenerational transmission

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Effects of group housing on stress induced emotional and neuroendocrine alterations

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Selectively Bred Rodents as Models of Depression and Anxiety

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Oxytocin and vasopressin modulate the social response to threat: a preclinical study

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Adolescent social stress does not necessarily lead to a compromised adaptive capacity during adulthood: A study on the consequences of social stress in rats

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Storing maternal memories: hypothesizing an interaction of experience and estrogen on sensory cortical plasticity to learn infant cues

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Reproductive Experience Affects Parental Retrieval Behaviour Associated with Increased Plasma Oxytocin Levels in Wild‐Type and Cd38‐Knockout Mice

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Low female stress hormone levels are predicted by same- or opposite-sex sociality depending on season in wild Assamese macaques

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Animal models of social stress: the dark side of social interactions

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Effects of long-lasting social isolation and re-socialization on cognitive performance and brain activity: a longitudinal study in Octodon degus

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