Hormone important in recognising familiar faces

Wednesday, January 7, 2009 - 09:56 in Mathematics & Economics

Oxytocin, a hormone involved in child-birth and breast-feeding, helps people recognise familiar faces, according to new research in the 7 January issue of The Journal of Neuroscience. Study participants who had one dose of an oxytocin nasal spray showed improved recognition memory for faces, but not for inanimate objects...

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