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

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.

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

If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.

Genes are important for understanding our behavior. Incredibly important - after all, they code for every protein pertinent to brain function, endocrinology, etc.

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.