The holidays conjure up images of romantic kisses under the mistletoe or ringing in the New Year, yet for many of us—partnered or not—these images evoke feelings starkly different from the love and ...

The first brain-wide map of regions that are active in prairie voles during mating and pair bonding reveal that bonding voles experience a storm of brain activity distributed across 68 distinct brain ...

How does sex relate to lasting love? To answer that question, scientists have long studied a small Midwestern rodent called the prairie vole, one of the few mammals known to form long-term, monogamous ...

Scientists have discovered that orgasms rewire the brains of fuzzy little rodents called prairie voles, helping them to bond and form long-term monogamous relationships. The research provides an ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — What can humans learn about love from other species? A fuzzy little prairie vole led researchers from the University of Texas at Austin to more answers on how to find lasting ...

The vital role of oxytocin -- the 'love hormone' -- for social attachments is being called into question. More than forty years of pharmacological and behavioral research has pointed to oxytocin ...

How does sex relate to lasting love? To answer that question, scientists have long studied a small Midwestern rodent called the prairie vole, one of the few mammals known to form long-term, monogamous ...