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Dr. Robert Malenka: How Your Brain’s Reward Circuits Drive Your Choices

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The Role of Oxytocin in Non-Aggressive Interactions

If you are part of a social species, there's a lot of advantages for your survival to be hanging out with other members of your species in a non-aggressive way. So about whenever it was 13 or 14 years ago, my lab decided to start looking at how the reward circuitry may play a role in what I am going to call positive, pro-social, non-aggressive interactions. Another word we use is just sociability. And then I started thinking evolutionarily, it makes a lot of sense.

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