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Oxytocin and serotonin make it worthwhile
- Nature Reviews Neuroscience
- 14,
- 740–741
- doi:10.1038/nrn3610
- Published online
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Despite the importance of social behaviours, such as parenting or altruism, for group survival and their persistence throughout evolution, little is known about the neural mechanisms underpinning them. In a new study published in Nature, Malenka and colleagues show that in the mouse nucleus accumbens (NAc), the coordinated action of oxytocin and serotonin is required t…
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