Execs and oxytocin
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Sam ..1 Comment
... erage of £672 when buying a watch (so say the facts in the FT circulation info!). You can have a read here.. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/04c3e24e-76a9-11db-8284-0000779e2340.htmlOxytocin, the "cuddle hormone", has taken over .. reads one line in the article!!I'm still awash with the good effects of oxytocin*. My cuddly colleague, Suz, who runs Cuddle ...
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Cesareans and Oxytocin
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Kathryn H.
I wanted to share the below article as food for thought. When I read the line, "maybe C-section moms may make up for it ( it being the release of oxytocin ) later with normal cuddling and hugging and nursing ," I thought, wow, that is exactly how I felt about my first birth. I instinctively sensed that something had be ...
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Research on the role of oxytocin...
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Thomas Z. Ramsøy
Research on the role of oxytocin, a neuropeptide, in social cognition has generated much interest during the last few years. We have earlier written about oxytocin’s role in social attachment; togeth ...
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Research on the role of oxytocin...
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Thomas Z. Ramsøy
Research on the role of oxytocin, a neuropeptide, in social cognition has generated much interest during the last few years. We have earlier written about oxytocin’s role in social attachment; togeth ...
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Like Oxytocin For Chocolate
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Kim C.
... tually be good for us . Not only that, but it can help get our brain in the blissful place it needs to be to conceive, give birth to and mother a baby. It's all about the oxytocin ! Plus, doesn't it make sense that experiencing joy is good for growing a baby?
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The Oxytocin and Autism Buzz
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Harold L D.
... tance that it is easy to ignore the latest story to come to public attention. Of late old dads and TV watching have taken their bows on the stage. The latest buzz is about Oxytocin a hormone which scientists say assists in trust and ...... in reading emotions and social cues in others. Hence the potential tie to autism. And researchers are st ...
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Indiana University Researcher To Study Oxytocin & Postpartum Depression
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Katherine S.
... ew mother's ability to care for her newborn, it can be confusing and misunderstood by the woman and her family," Rupp said. "My colleagues and I will be investigating whether oxytocin, a hormone that reduces the physiological stress response and promotes social bonding, buffers new mothers against depression through its influences on their neural r ...
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Warnings about brain scans, empathy, and oxytocin
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Stephanie Allen
With the mass popularization of neuroscience in many arenas, including conflict resolution, one hears much dumbing down of how the brain works. I read an excellent blog post today at Lucid Thoughts titled fMRI and "locationism": Something Old, Something New and wanted to point it out to you since it explains a factor in this dumbing down. Blogger S ...
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Hospital’s Oxytocin Protocol Change Sharply Reduces Emergency C-Section Share
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Deb ..
One of my fellow chidlbirth advocates turned me onto an article about the correlation of pitocin usage and emergency cesareans. Interestingly, as the usage of pitocin increases (According to the authors of Williams Obstetrics, 81% of the women who gave birth in the hospital received pitocin during their labors.) as does the national cesarean [...]
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