Oxytocin

will have to increase your speed. 13b. Yes a single negative feedback loop will be helpful in maintaining homeostasis, because if you're driving to fast a signal would be sent to tell you to slow down. 14.The stimulus is the hypothalamus releases oxytocin. The response would be the uterine walls contract and the baby pushes against the…

Question 1: What is hematocrit? What does Mrs. Jones’ value indicate? Hematocrit is a blood test that provides information to the physician about the patient’s health that they are looking after about the amount of red blood cell in their blood. However, the measurement of hematocrit is determined by the size of the red blood cell and stated as the complete blood count in which the hemoglobin values are counted as well (Charles Patrick Davis, 2016). “The standard values of hematocrit for adult…

prosocial behavior is a hormone called oxytocin. A hormone responsible for numerous functions throughout the body, oxytocin is also believed to play a key role in regulating social behaviors. In humans, natural oxytocin levels are related to feelings of love and trust in intimate relationships both between parent and child and between romantic partners. Furthermore, oxytocin levels are related to empathy and subsequent generosity toward strangers. And, when oxytocin is administered…

brain, two become one in the way their brain activity is in sync. While the synchronization is special, it is not exclusive to the few people they know. It can be spread to those who give off a positive resonance and are open to a love interaction. Oxytocin, or the trust hormone, allows people to become more trusting of the people around them but without losing their sense of danger. However, this trust requires mutual cooperation and care to enact this sense of love between two people. In this…

What is “Happiness”? Have you ever been out during a sunny day at the park and ask yourself “What is happiness ?”,”Is happiness a chemical reaction in our bodies?”,”Is happiness something in our DNA and RNA ?”,”What makes people happy these days?”, “Do money really buy happiness ?”,”What influence happiness?” For most of the history of mankind we have studied sadness and mental illness but never happiness. Now the answer to what happiness is seems to be in a strong debate. Many sources…

psychological support. This was determined by a test that measured the oxytocin levels of a person having interactions with their pet dog. Oxytocin functions to strengthen the bond between mothers and their babies, but a similar effect was found between owners and their dogs. Oxytocin levels raised in both participants during the experiment, so the relationship is not only beneficial to people, it is an example of mutualism. The release of oxytocin can lower heart rates, decrease blood pressure,…

Sociobiology is defined as the way in which human biology affects how we orchestrate our culture. It can affect how we interact with people and how we mate, both when and why. Sociobiology explains both logically and rationally why all cultures exemplify the same human sexual behavior. This being that men are encouraged to partake in sexual relations with multiple different partners, while females are discouraged from having coitus outside of marriage, and are even sometimes shunned. It is a…

Kristen D. Neff, a psychologist and associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, published her book Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind To Yourself to teach her readers to let go of self-criticism and its harmful effects and lead more fulfilled lives. As stated in her curriculum vita, her book expresses the results of her ongoing studies in “defining, measuring, researching, and developing an intervention to teach self-compassion” Although her studies come from her…

Throughout Barbara Frederickson’s Love 2.0, new ways to think and feel about life and love are proposed to the reader. She delves in on love as it relates to us physically and cognitively. Personally, I have always carried the belief that without love, we are not truly alive and thriving, but are instead barely surviving. But when I say love, I’m not talking about the strong love you would feel for a significant other, the filial love between a mother and child, or even that strong love a dog…

being done on rodents to see the affects they have. The experiments involve two different groups of rodents and support idea that they had. the first group were males that already had the oxytocin gene, the other was praire vole in the couples had stable monogramous bond. The rodents that already had the oxytocin genes were unconscious and could not produce the oxycontin hormone. Without the production of the hormone the males had social amnesisa. They could not detect the female mice that the…