Suckling Infants Trigger Surges Of Trust Hormone In Mothers' Brains
Monday, July 21, 2008 - 19:28
in Health & Medicine
Researchers 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.
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