NeuroscienceHormones and BehaviorPeer-reviewed
Central oxytocin signaling inhibits food reward-motivated behaviors and VTA dopamine responses to food-predictive cues in male rats
Clarissa M. Liu, Ted M. Hsu, Andrea N. Suarez…·Scott E. Kanoski
This study shows that central oxytocin reduces food-seeking behavior and VTA dopamine responses to food cues in male rats, but not postingestive reward value encoding.
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