FROM OXYTOCIN TO COMPASSION: THE SALIENCY OF DISTRESS

From Oxytocin to Compassion: The Saliency of Distress

Compassion is a warm response of care and concern for those who are suffering, which drives individuals to devote their resources for the sake of others.A prominent neuroevolutionary framework grounds compassion in the neurobiology of the mammalian caregiving system.Accordingly, it has been suggested that the oxytocinergic system, which plays a cen

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Oculomotor deficits in aryl hydrocarbon receptor null mouse.

The Aryl hydrocarbon Receptor or AhR, a ligand-activated transcription factor, is known to mediate the toxic and carcinogenic effects of various environmental pollutants such as 2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD).Recent studies in Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster show that the orthologs of the AhR are expressed exclusively

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