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The neurobiology of attachment
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It is difficult to think of any behavioural process that is more intrinsically important to us than attachment. Feeding, sleeping and locomotion are all necessary for survival, but humans are, as Baruch Spinoza famously noted, "a social animal" and it is our social attachments that we live for. Over the past decade, studies in a range of vertebrates, including humans, have begun to address the neural basis of attachment at a molecular, cellular and systems level. This review describes some of the important insights from this work.
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“Moreover, they have also been shown to inhibit other behavioral systems that are involved in resilience, such as exploration, affiliation, and caregiving (Insel & Young, 2001; Mikulincer & Shaver, 2007; Neumann, 2008), which might also partially explain these individuals' difficulties in entering lasting relationships (including relationships with mental health care professionals) and the”
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“For instance, oxytocin and vasopressin have been shown to inhibit aversion of both female and male rodents to infant pups, as well as leading to a number of affiliative behaviors, including caregiving behavior (Insel & Young, 2001).”
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“Experiments in prairie voles have revealed central roles for oxytocin in modulating a variety of emotional and social behaviors [164–166].”
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“Research has repeatedly implicated the neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) as one of the key hormones involved in parent-infant bonding in mammals, as well as in a range of social and affiliative behaviors (3–7).”
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“Healthy maternal sensitivity is characterized by the ability to reliably recognize and respond to infant cues, thus initiating appropriate caregiving responses”
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“Oxytocin is responsible for various prosocial functions in mammals such as parental care, pair bonding and empathy”
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“Oxytocin mediates a broad spectrum of prosocial behaviors such as empathy, pair bonding, mating and social reward (Dölen et al., 2013; L. W. Hung et al., 2017; Insel and Young, 2001; Nakajima et al., 2014; Rogers-Carter et al., 2018).”
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“Oxytocin also acts in the brain to increase the salience of social information and enable alloparenting in mice1,9,12–14.”
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“Oxytocin1,2,9–15, which is released by the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN), is a critical maternal hormone.”
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“In primates, including humans, non-biological parents can learn to care for children after instruction or observation of experienced caretakers and infants1–8.”
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“These rodents have served as the primary animal model for studying the formation of pair bonds (Insel and Young, 2001).”
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“One other mammalian species that has been shown to form pair bonds are prairie voles (Insel and Young, 2001).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Insel, T. R., & Young, L. J.
- Affiliations
- Emory University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Insel, Thomas R.
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- Published
- 2001-02
- Volume
- 2
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 129-136
- ISSN
- 1471-003X (ISSN-L)
- 1471-0048
- OpenAlex
- W2165266294
- Cited by
- 1,173
- References
- 93
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Nature reviews. Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- National Institute of Mental Health
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- attachment, neurobiology of attachment, social attachment, social behavior, cellular and molecular mechanisms, neural systems
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Animals, Newborn, Female, Humans, Learning, Male, Mother-Child Relations, Object Attachment, Oxytocin, Smell
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