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Neuroscientists from the University of California, Irvine have discovered that the “love hormone” oxytocin stimulates the brain production of self-produced cannabis neurotransmitters called ...

Scientists are vitally interested in understanding social behaviors and the bonds we form with “conspecifics” (other members of the same species) because the overwhelming majority of studies of social ...

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