Oxytocin and vasopressin are regulators of anxiety, stress-co**, and sociality. They are
released within hypothalamic and limbic areas from dendrites, axons, and perikarya …

Environmental challenges are part of daily life for any individual. In fact, stress appears to be
increasingly present in our modern, and demanding, industrialized society. Virtually every …

There are no specific structural neuropathological hallmarks found in the brain of mood
disorders. Instead, there are molecular, functional and structural alterations reported in many …

In the present study, we have examined the behavioral and biochemical effect of induction of
psychological stress using a modified version of the resident-intruder model for social stress …

Oxidative stress has been implicated in the pathogenesis of diverse disease states, and may
be a common pathogenic mechanism underlying many major psychiatric disorders, as the …

Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent group of psychiatric diseases, and have high
personal and societal costs. The search for novel pharmacological treatments for these …

In the mammalian peripartum period, the activity of both the brain oxytocin and vasopressin
system is elevated as part of the physiological adaptations occurring in the mother. This is …

Fear extinction is a form of inhibitory learning that allows for the adaptive control of
conditioned fear responses. Although fear extinction is an active learning process that …

Anxiety disorders are common, serious and a growing health problem worldwide. However,
the causative factors, aetiology and underlying mechanisms of anxiety disorders, as for most …

Vasopressin (Avp) is mainly synthesized in the magnocellular cells of the hypothalamic
supraoptic (SON) and paraventricular nuclei (PVN) whose axons project to the posterior …