... behavior mechanisms and can influence a more general behavioral tendency toward affiliation (Jones, McEwen & Pfaff, 1987). Estrogens also can stimulate neuronal growth in a manner that may be important for sex drives and for cognition (Bueno & Pfaff, 1976). Especially interesting is the contrast with a chemically similar neuropeptide, vasopressin (AVP). Oxytocin and AVP are neuropeptides that evolved from the ... and Mothering Manufactured and released by the pituitary gland, oxytocin is crucial to labor, delivery, and successful breastfeeding. It acts upon the uterus and the milk-produ...

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