Although you may not know what it is, you've heard about oxytocin. Oxytocin, the “love hormone,” promotes empathy and trust.
Oxytocin is synthesized in the hypothalamus and released by the pituitary gland. It performs many functions.
Oxytocin helps women reproduce through sexual activity, delivery, and lactation.
Oxytocin is supposed to cause empathy, trust, and “love” in humans.
Oxytocin may not just cause pro-social behavior, as research is showing.
Some experts believe that oxytocin sharpens social cues, helping us target our social activity more accurately.
This theory developed from mouse and other experimental animal experiments.
This experiment on rats suggests that oxytocin may improve brain clarity.