Psychology & Psychiatry
Child development experts discover potential upside to prenatal stress
Prenatal stress might not be so bad for babies after all, depending on how they are raised.
Feb 7, 2018
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News tagged with vole
Psychology & Psychiatry
When male voles drink alcohol, but their partner doesn't, their relationship suffers
A study of the effect of alcohol on long-term relationships finds that when a male prairie vole has access to alcohol, but his female partner doesn't, the relationship suffers - similar to what has been observed in human ...
Nov 17, 2017
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Neuroscience
Researchers closer to cracking neural code of love
A team of neuroscientists from Emory University's Silvio O. Conte Center for Oxytocin and Social Cognition has discovered a key connection between areas of the adult female prairie vole's brain reward system that promotes ...
May 31, 2017
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
What bank voles can teach us about prion disease transmission and neurodegeneration
When cannibals ate brains of people who died from prion disease, many of them fell ill with the fatal neurodegenerative disease as well. Likewise, when cows were fed protein contaminated with bovine prions, many of them developed ...
Apr 3, 2014
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Psychology & Psychiatry
A cautionary note on oxytocin as a treatment for psychiatric disorders
The hormone oxytocin is known for its widespread effects on social and reproductive processes, and recent data from intranasal administration in humans has produced hope for its use as a therapeutic in autism, schizophrenia, ...
Aug 12, 2013
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Health
Negative effects of vitamins on voles cast doubt on health supplement benefits
Vitamin C and vitamin E dramatically reduce the lifespan of voles, biologists have found, raising questions about the benefits of vitamins as a health supplement.
Jul 8, 2013
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Neuroscience
Hormone affects distance men keep from unknown women they find attractive
Men in committed relationships choose to keep a greater distance between themselves and an unknown woman they find attractive when given the hormone oxytocin, according to new research in the November 14 issue of The Journal ...
Nov 13, 2012
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Neuroscience
Steady relationships reduce amphetamine's rewarding effects
Long-term relationships make the commonly abused drug amphetamine less appealing, according to a new animal study in the June 1 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. The findings suggest that social bonds formed during adulthood ...
Jun 1, 2011
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Social bonding in prairie voles helps guide search for autism treatments
Researchers at the Center for Translational Social Neuroscience (CTSN) at Emory University are focusing on prairie voles as a new model to screen the effectiveness of drugs to treat autism.
Apr 28, 2011
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