Neuroscientist Joanna Dabrowska has gotten a $1.7 million award from the National Institute of Mental Health as part of a five-year grant to the Icahn School at Mount Sinai.

Oxytocin promotes social behaviors and helps maintain relationships. But clinical trials in patients with autism show variability in how consistently oxytocin improves these behaviors. Steve Chang, ...

The autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) could help you access an altered sense of consciousness, research suggests. Oxytocin, colloquially known as the love hormone, is largely responsible for ...

Supportive marital relationships are associated with lower BMI, fewer food addiction symptoms, higher oxytocin, stronger ...

A spritz of the so-called “love hormone” might be the key to easing persistent feelings of loneliness. In a 2014 study, a team of European and Israeli researchers tested whether oxytocin, the hormone ...

Readers can rebalance their brain chemistry by maximizing the production of chemicals that today’s sedentary and tech-based lifestyles have suppressed, according to this sensible debut guide.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines post-COVID conditions as a wide range of new, returning, or ongoing health problems people can struggle with four or more weeks after first ...

It’s a common saying that, in life, change is the only constant. From the shifting of the seasons to unexpected personal upheavals, the human body is in a perpetual face-off with its environment. The ...