The release of the “feel-good” chemicals dopamine, serotonin, endorphins, and oxytocin are tied to specific lifestyle, exercise, and dietary choices. Here’s what triggers each one.

Volume 17, Issue 5, on May 1, 2025, titled "Oxytocin modulates insulin and GLP-1 secretion in pancreatic islets." ...

As the opioid epidemic persists across the United States, a team of researchers from Brown University has developed new ...

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Hopes for the use of oxytocin as a therapy for mood and attachment disorders have been confounded by the wide-ranging effects ...

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Image credit: Anastasia Mihaylova (Shpara)/Stocksy. Previous studies on the role of oxytocin in social bonding used drugs to block the oxytocin receptor, but researchers have now used genetic ...

Of the dozens of hormones found in the human body, oxytocin might just be the most overrated. Linked to the pleasures of romance, orgasms, philanthropy, and more, the chemical has been endlessly ...

Devanand Manoli, MD, PhD, studies the effects of oxytocin, the molecule behind pair bonding. He works with Psychiatry Postdoctoral Scholars Ruchira Sharma, PhD, (left) and Kristen Berendzen, MD, PhD, ...

Here’s how it works. Oxytocin, sometimes called the "love hormone," may help heal broken hearts — literally. In a new study of zebrafish and human cells, scientists found that the brain-made ...