The many facets of the oxytocin (OXT) system of the brain and periphery elicited nearly
25,000 publications since 1930 (see, as listed in PubMed), which revealed central roles for …

Mind–body interventions are beneficial in stress-related mental and physical disorders.
Current research is finding associations between emotional disorders and vagal tone as …

As exemplified particularly with vasopressin and oxytocin, release of neuropeptides within
the brain occurs from dendrites, somata, and axons of neurosecretory neurons; mechanisms …

Medical yoga is defined as the use of yoga practices for the prevention and treatment of
medical conditions. Beyond the physical elements of yoga, which are important and effective …

A successful pregnancy requires multiple adaptations of the mother's physiology to optimize
fetal growth and development, to protect the fetus from adverse programming, to provide …

Prolactin (PRL) is one of the most versatile hormones known. It is considered an adaptive
hormone due to the key roles it plays in the modulation of the stress response and during …

During recent decades numerous yoga-based practices (YBP) have emerged in the West,
with their aims ranging from fitness gains to therapeutic benefits and spiritual development …

Depression is the most common psychiatric disease among women, exhibiting a prevalence
which is 2–3× higher than in men. The postpartum period is considered the time of greatest …

Male behavioral responses to offspring range from avoidance to infanticide to nurturing care.
If this book were focussed on parental care among nonmammalian vertebrates, most of the …

The neuroendocrine control of prolactin secretion is unlike that of any other pituitary
hormone. It is predominantly inhibited by the hypothalamus and, in the absence of a …