Suckling infants trigger surges of trust hormone in mothers' brains
Friday, July 18, 2008 - 13:07
in Health & Medicine
Researchers from the University of Warwick, in collaboration with other universities and institutes in Edinburgh, France and Italy, have for the first time been able to show exactly how, when a baby suckles at a mother's breast, it starts a chain of events that leads to surges of the "trust" hormone oxytocin being released in their mothers' brains.