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Balance of brain oxytocin and vasopressin: implications for anxiety, depression, and social behaviors.
Trends in neurosciences - 1 Nov 2012
Neumann Inga D, Landgraf Rainer
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Oxytocin and vasopressin are regulators of anxiety, stress-coping, and sociality. They are released within hypothalamic and limbic areas from dendrites, axons, and perikarya independently of, or coordinated with, secretion from neurohypophysial terminals. Central oxytocin exerts anxiolytic and an...
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