Brain Chemicals and Smiles
News Team member Alya Khoury reports on how areas of our brains distinguish between genuine and posed smiles using the neurotransmitter oxytocin.
Dr. Sue Carter: Oxytocin the Human Hormone: A Report from a Life in Science
If you are not holding the hormone oxytocin in the highest regard now, you will after listening to this episode’s guest, Sue Carter, PhD, as she explains how this remarkable hormone may hold the key to much of what makes us who we are. In particular, Dr. Carter describes the myriad ways that oxytocin allows humans to feel safe enough in the world and with each other to engage in the many types of bonding/sharing behaviors that have allowed us to create the world in which we live.