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The yin and yang of cortical oxytocin

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Female mice can learn to respond to distress calls from young mice — an ability that has now been found to be improved through signalling by the hormone oxytocin in the left auditory cortex of the brain. See Article p.499

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Figure 1: From cry to cortex.

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  1. Robert C. Liu is in the Department of Biology, Silvio O. Conte Center for Oxytocin and Social Cognition, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA.,

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