{"id":76621,"date":"2025-08-12T07:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/76621\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T07:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T07:13:09","slug":"prosocial-effects-of-oxytocin-are-state-dependent-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/76621\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosocial effects of oxytocin are state dependent; and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social support: Oxytocin\u2019s effects on social behavior depend on ongoing social motivation and brain activity in two regions known to contribute to social reward, according to a new study in rhesus macaques. When these monkeys showed socially motivated behavior\u2014sharing juice\u2014an injection of oxytocin directly into the basolateral amygdala extended the duration of that prosocial state and increased neural activity between the amygdala and the anterior cingulate cortex. But when monkeys were not behaving in a prosocial way, the hormone had little effect on either behavior or neural activity. The findings may explain the variability observed in studies of oxytocin in autistic adults. Previous work has shown that vasopressin, a structurally similar hormone, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetransmitter.org\/spectrum\/vasopressin-boosts-sociability-in-solitary-monkeys\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">improves sociability<\/a> in rhesus monkeys. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1523\/JNEUROSCI.2416-24.2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Journal of Neuroscience<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More autism research we spotted:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPangenome discovery of missing autism variants\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2025.07.21.25331932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">medRxiv<\/a><br \/>\n\u201cSCN2A-linked myelination deficits and synaptic plasticity alterations drive auditory processing disorders in an ASD mouse model\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41467-025-62494-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nature Communications<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Social support: Oxytocin\u2019s effects on social behavior depend on ongoing social motivation and brain activity in two regions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76622,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[200,79],"class_list":["post-76621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-genetics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}