OK - hot off the presses - any comments?


http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/11/14...p=trending

(11-14-2012 2:27 PM)Shelly B Wrote:  OK - hot off the presses - any comments?


http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/11/14...p=trending

"Larry Young, an oxytocin researcher at Emory University who was not involved in the study, said in a statement. "This study suggests that the general role of oxytocin in promoting monogamous behavior is conserved from rodents to man."

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Studies like this clearly suggest only that it is the epigenetic effect of food odors and pheromones on oxytocin secretion that is responsible for what some researchers attribute to oxytocin outside the context of what is neuroscientifically known.

Social behavior evolved from ingestive behavior. Oxytocin is as much a part of our "love" for food and development of food preferences as it is bonding with a preferred mate. Ask the researchers how the role of oxytocin extends to bonding in homosexuals, and watch them squirm.

(11-14-2012 5:11 PM)jvkohl Wrote:  "Larry Young, an oxytocin researcher at Emory University who was not involved in the study, said in a statement. "This study suggests that the general role of oxytocin in promoting monogamous behavior is conserved from rodents to man."

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Studies like this clearly suggest only that it is the epigenetic effect of food odors and pheromones on oxytocin secretion that is responsible for what some researchers attribute to oxytocin outside the context of what is neuroscientifically known.

Social behavior evolved from ingestive behavior. Oxytocin is as much a part of our "love" for food and development of food preferences as it is bonding with a preferred mate. Ask the researchers how the role of oxytocin extends to bonding in homosexuals, and watch them squirm.

So - JV - are you going to ask them? Because I'm fairly certain I don't have the credentials to play in that sandbox but you do.

(11-15-2012 7:30 AM)Shelly B Wrote:  So - JV - are you going to ask them? Because I'm fairly certain I don't have the credentials to play in that sandbox but you do.

I've asked many of the key players in this line of research. No one has indicated to me what controls oxytocin secretion (i.e., GnRH) or how its secretion evolved (e.g., via sexual selection) to play such a 'prominent' role in some mammals. I did learn there is an alternative rodent model with extensively detailed cause and effect examples of behavioral development.

When I asked the presenter (from Argentina) if he had data from studies of oxytocin and he said no, I invited him to lunch to learn more about what he knew in the context of the biology of behavioral development, which was more than any researcher I've met who is currently studying the role of oxytocin.