The "love hormone" oxytocin may help maintain romantic relationships by prompting men to keep their distance from attractive women, a new study from Germany suggests. In the study, men in monogamous ...

Bridget Jones’s Diary makes me snort. I mean that literally. I emit a scornful guttural sound whenever I see it, which, unfortunately, happens a lot in my house. It’s one of my wife’s go-to cable ...

Oxytocin has been called the “cuddle chemical” and the “love hormone” — the glue that bonds parents to children and lovers to each other. Given that levels of oxytocin surge during orgasm and remain ...

In recent years, we've been bombarded with studies about the hormone oxytocin — researchers have demonstrated it increases trust and helps aid in social bonding. It has even garnered a reputation as ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “There is a lack of knowledge regarding the pathophysiology underlying hypersexual disorder, and this is the ...

Oxytocin has long been called the love hormone because of the critical role it plays in attachment, bonding, and plenty of other feel-good moments humans share with one another. What is oxytocin? The ...

Men with hypersexual disorder may have higher levels of oxytocin in their blood than men without the disorder, according to a small study published in the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical ...

Around 14.5% of nulliparous women who received high-dose oxytocin (6 mU/min) had a C-section delivery versus 14.4% who received the standard regimen (2 mU/min), a result that was not statistically ...

Mild wounds healed faster if people took a spray containing the "love hormone" oxytocin and set aside time to praise their ...