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The neurobiology of pair bonding.
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A neurobiological model for pair-bond formation has emerged from studies in monogamous rodents. The neuropeptides oxytocin and vasopressin contribute to the processing of social cues necessary for individual recognition. Mesolimbic dopamine is involved in reinforcement and reward learning. Concurrent activation of neuropeptide and dopamine receptors in the reward centers of the brain during mating results in a conditioned partner preference, observed as a pair bond. Differential regulation of neuropeptide receptor expression may explain species differences in the ability to form pair bonds. These and other studies discussed here have intriguing implications for the neurobiology of social attachment in our own species.
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“Meta-analyses and systematic reviews indicate that a range of common therapies can indeed be effective in relieving couple distress in many situations [26, 27].”
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“The hypothalamic peptide oxytocin (OXT) has been identified as a key modulator of pair-bonding in men, but its effects in women are still elusive.”
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“A study injecting 3H-leucine into the SON found multiple extrahypothalamic projections, including olfactory bulb, amygdala, cingulum, and locus coeruleus [140].”
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“which suggests that species-specific differences in neural distributions of OXTR can reflect the social organisation of the species (20,21).”
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“OXTR signaling in the NAcc is required for mating-induced partner preference formation, a laboratory proxy of pair bonding (6).”
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“OXTR affects a range of social behaviors in animals including maternal nurturing and bonding (1, 2), social reward and gregariousness (3, 4), social recognition (5), and pair bonding in monogamous species (6–8).”
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“In a socially monogamous rodent, the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster), OXTR is enriched in important MLR regions such as the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) and prefrontal cortex (PFC) that constitute part of a neural network for pair bonding (6, 8, 34).”
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“OXTR density is much higher in the NAcc of prairie voles than promiscuous vole species”
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“It is thought that the interface between oxytocin and the dopaminergic reward system may contribute to the success of mother-infant and pair-bonding processes [18,[75][76][77].”
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“Our first studies of the role of the AVPR1a gene in social cognition exemplified by a simple laboratory paradigm converges with a wide range of both animal and human experimentation showing that arginine vasopressin (AVP) and the closely related oxytocin (OT) are key neuropeptides that facilitate social communication, affiliative behaviors and social cognition across mammals [6], [7] .”
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“By contrast, other related vole species such as the meadow vole (M. pennsylvanicus) and the montane vole (M. montanus) are relatively asocial and do not readily form social bonds, providing a useful point of comparison for identifying neurobiological and genetic systems leading to diversity in social behaviors [2].”
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“By contrast, other related vole species such as the meadow vole (M. pennsylvanicus) and the montane vole (M. montanus) are relatively asocial and do not readily form social bonds, providing a useful point of comparison for identifying neurobiological and genetic systems leading to diversity in social behaviors [2].”
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“For example, socially monogamous male prairie voles have high densities of AVPR1A binding in the ventral pallidum, a major output of the NAcc, while non-mongamous vole species do not [2].”
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“One of these socially monogamous mammals that has provided remarkable insights into the neural and neurogenetic mechanisms of social attachments is the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster)”
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“V1aR signaling in the ventral pallidum and LS promote partner preferences (149), while pair bond-induced aggression is mediated by V1aR in the lateral hypothalamus (43,150).”
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“Because animal research has documented that OT is primarily a social bonding hormone that activates socio-emotional neural pathways in the brain 22,23 , we would also expect the effect of OT in humans to be limited to social situations where initiating or establishing partnership is important to realize synergy.”
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- Authors
- Young, L. J., & Wang, Z.
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- Emory University (US)
- Florida State University (US)
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- Young, Larry J
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- Nature Neuroscience
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- 2004-09-26
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- 7
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- 10
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- 1048-1054
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- 1097-6256 (ISSN-L)
- 1546-1726
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- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Sensory Systems › Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Keywords
- pair bonding, monogamy, oxytocin, vasopressin, mesolimbic dopamine system, reward learning, social attachment, individual recognition, social behavior
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Brain, Dopamine, Humans, Neural Pathways, Neuropeptides, Pair Bond, Reward, Receptors, Neuropeptide, Models, Animal
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
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