The role of oxytocin on peaceful associations and sociality in mammals
The role of oxytocin on peaceful associations and sociality in mammals
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催产素对哺乳动物和平交往和社交的作用
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10.1163/1568539x-00003358
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2016
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& HASEGAWA T.
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ROMERO T.;ONISHI K.;& HASEGAWA T.
目前有大量证据表明，催产素，一种下丘脑神经肽，调节人类和非人类动物的许多形式的社会行为和认知。然而，绝大多数的动物研究都集中在母体依恋和生殖伴侣关系上。为了理解和平交往和社交的神经化学基础，催产素对其他类型的社交关系的贡献，以及社交中的个体差异，也应该被探索。在这里，我们总结了目前大多数关于催产素在调节与交配没有直接关系的稳定和平联想中的作用的研究。我们还概述了催产素在支持特定社会结构中的作用，并提出了一种新的研究方法来评估社会倾向的个体差异与催产素能系统变化之间的关系。最后，我们讨论了未来社会生物学基础研究的途径。
There is currently substantial evidence indicating that oxytocin, a hypothalamus neuropeptide, modulates many forms of social behaviour and cognition in both human and non-human animals. The vast majority of animal research, however, has concentrated on maternal attachment and reproductive pair-bonds. In order to understand the neurochemical foundations of peaceful associations and sociality, oxytocin’s contribution to other types of social bonds, as well as to individual variation in sociality, should also be explored. Here, we summarise the most current studies that have investigated oxytocin’s role in regulating stable peaceful associations not directly related to mating. We also provide an overview on oxytocin’s role in support of specific social structures, and propose a novel research approach to evaluate the relationship between individual variation in social tendencies and variation in the oxytociergic system. We conclude by discussing avenues of future investigation in the biological substrates of sociality.