Oxytocin - popularly known as the love hormone - plays a crucial role in helping the brain process a wide array of social signals. Understanding oxytocin and molecules like it may shed light on a number of brain disorders. Oxytocin acts like a modulator in the brain, turning up the volume of certain stimuli while turning others down. Oxytocin - popularly known as the love hormone - plays a crucial role in helping the brain process a wide array of social signals, Harvard scientists have found. The study suggests that oxytocin acts like a modulator in the brain, turning up the volume of certain stimuli while turning others down, helping the brain to make sense of the barrage for information it receives from one moment to the next. In investigating the role of oxytocin in processing social signals, researchers from Harvard University in the US began with an prevalent behaviour - the preference for male mice to interact with females. Studies have shown that this behaviou...
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