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Unleashing the 'love' hormone

Nature Medicine volume 10, page 122 (2004)Cite this article

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The Oxytocin Factor

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Perseus 2003 240 pp. hardcover $23.00 ISBN 0738207489 | ISBN: 0-738-20748-9

This is not an impartial review. Having long been a convert to the view that the neuropeptide oxytocin is of great importance in social and reproductive behavior and emotions, I am sympathetic to Uvnäs Moberg's message. My bias acknowledged, I find her book to be an excellent introduction for the general public.

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