Oxytocin is a Teflon hormone - bad news rolls off it.

Oxytocin is a Teflon hormone - bad news rolls off it.

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.

Individual differences in testosterone level predict very little about differences in aggression.

I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.

On an incredibly simplistic level, you can think of depression as occurring when your cortex thinks an abstract thought and manages to convince the rest of the brain that this is as real as a physical stressor.

Oxytocin is lauded for how it promotes warmth, generosity, social bonding, cooperation, trust, and compassion.