'Morality pills' may be the US's best shot at ending the coronavirus pandemic, according to one ethicist
Rather than a vaccine to beef up your immune system, a psychoactive substance could boost your cooperative, pro-social behavior – curtailing the selfish actions that spur on coronavirus's spread.
Parker Crutchfield, Associate Professor of Medical Ethics, Humanities and Law, Western Michigan University
• conversation
Aug. 10, 2020 • ~9 min
Aug. 10, 2020 • ~9 min
Tags: covid-19 coronavirus emotion cooperation psilocybin social-distancing altruism oxytocin face-masks masks public-goods performance-enhancement cognitive-enhancement experimental-economics sociopath human-enhancements rules wearing-masks
3D ‘map’ of oxytocin receptor could bring new drugs
Researchers have determined the 3D structure of the receptor that the hormone oxytocin binds to. The findings could aid drug development.
U. Zurich
• futurity
Aug. 3, 2020 • ~5 min
Aug. 3, 2020 • ~5 min
Tags: hormones oxytocin drug-development health-and-medicine
Bonding with baby: what it should feel like and how long it may take
Up to 35% of mothers and fathers don't fall in love with their baby immediately.
Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg, Professor of Clinical Child and Family Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• conversation
March 30, 2020 • ~8 min
March 30, 2020 • ~8 min
Tags: neuroscience birth newborns oxytocin attachment-parenting bonding post-partum-depression
5 things to know about the science of dad
Happy Father's Day! Here are five unexpected research findings about dads.
Carol Clark-Emory
• futurity
June 12, 2019 • ~7 min
June 12, 2019 • ~7 min
Tags: parents gender childrens-health families oxytocin fathers featured society-and-culture health-and-medicine postpartum-depression
Hormone duo may protect some women against PTSD
New research could clarify why not all women with traumatic childhoods develop PTSD.
Austin Fitzgerald-Missouri
• futurity
April 23, 2019 • ~4 min
April 23, 2019 • ~4 min
Tags: hormones stress trauma cortisol abuse oxytocin health-and-medicine post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd
Ecstasy may reopen brain’s ‘critical period’ to treat PTSD
Ecstasy has successfully treated some people with PTSD. A new study suggests reopening the "critical period" in the brain may be why.
Vanessa Wasta-Johns Hopkins
• futurity
April 4, 2019 • ~6 min
April 4, 2019 • ~6 min
Tags: brains oxytocin health-and-medicine medications post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd
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