Oxytocin receptors in the midbrain dorsal raphe are essential for postpartum maternal social and affective behaviors

Oxytocin receptor expression in the midbrain dorsal raphe is dynamic across female reproduction in rats

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Decreased mesolimbic dopaminergic signaling underlies the waning of maternal caregiving across the postpartum period in rats

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Lateralized Expression of Cortical Perineuronal Nets during Maternal Experience is Dependent on MECP2

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Estrogen Withdrawal Increases Postpartum Anxiety via Oxytocin Plasticity in the Paraventricular Hypothalamus and Dorsal Raphe Nucleus

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Serotonin-specific lesions of the dorsal raphe disrupt maternal aggression and caregiving in postpartum rats

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Sucrose preference test for measurement of stress-induced anhedonia in mice

(2018) Meng-Ying Liu et al.   Nature Protocols

The Oxytocin Receptor: From Intracellular Signaling to Behavior

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Interaction between postpartum stage and litter age on maternal caregiving and medial preoptic area orexin

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Silencing Alpha Synuclein in Mature Nigral Neurons Results in Rapid Neuroinflammation and Subsequent Toxicity

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Postpartum inhibition of ovarian steroid action increases aspects of maternal caregiving and reduces medial preoptic area progesterone receptor expression in female rats

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The Neurobiology of Postpartum Anxiety and Depression

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MECP2 regulates cortical plasticity underlying a learned behaviour in adult female mice

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Casting a Wide Net: Role of Perineuronal Nets in Neural Plasticity

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Pregnancy leads to long-lasting changes in human brain structure

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Continuous Collection of Adeno-Associated Virus from Producer Cell Medium Significantly Increases Total Viral Yield

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Raphe serotonin neuron-specific oxytocin receptor knockout reduces aggression without affecting anxiety-like behavior in male mice only

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Oxytocin microinjected into the central amygdaloid nuclei exerts anti-aggressive effects in male rats

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MeCP2 regulates the timing of critical period plasticity that shapes functional connectivity in primary visual cortex

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Can oxytocin treat autism?

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Chronic fluoxetine treatment alters the structure, connectivity and plasticity of cortical interneurons

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Oxytocin in the medial prefrontal cortex regulates maternal care, maternal aggression and anxiety during the postpartum period

(2014) Sara Sabihi et al.   Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Social reward requires coordinated activity of nucleus accumbens oxytocin and serotonin

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Chronic fluoxetine treatment reduces parvalbumin expression and perineuronal nets in gamma-aminobutyric acidergic interneurons of the frontal cortex in adult mice

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Maternal antidepressant use and adverse outcomes: a cohort study of 228,876 pregnancies

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Chronic fluoxetine treatment and maternal adversity differentially alter neurobehavioral outcomes in the rat dam

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Serotonin Mediates Cross-Modal Reorganization of Cortical Circuits

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The plasticity of human maternal brain: Longitudinal changes in brain anatomy during the early postpartum period.

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Adjunctive Intranasal Oxytocin Reduces Symptoms in Schizophrenia Patients

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Evidence That Oxytocin Exerts Anxiolytic Effects via Oxytocin Receptor Expressed in Serotonergic Neurons in Mice

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Effects of chronic fluoxetine treatment on the rat somatosensory cortex: Activation and induction of neuronal structural plasticity

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The response of neurons in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis to serotonin: Implications for anxiety

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Oxytocin receptor activity in the ventrocaudal periaqueductal gray modulates anxiety-related behavior in postpartum rats.

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Medial preoptic area interactions with dopamine neural systems in the control of the onset and maintenance of maternal behavior in rats

(2008) Michael Numan et al.   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Analyzing real-time PCR data by the comparative CT method

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Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and the Neurogenetics of Sociality

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No stress please! Mechanisms of stress hyporesponsiveness of the maternal brain

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