Mothers more sensitive to crying babies thanks to hormone

16 Apr 2015


Studies on laboratory mice have found that oxytocin changes the behaviour of virgin females so that they are able to recognise and respond to the distress calls of baby mice despite never having given birth. The study is published today in Nature.

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