Behavioural neuroscience: Taking axonal delivery of oxytocin : Article : Nature Reviews Neuroscience
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Oxytocin affects various social behaviours by acting on forebrain regions including the amygdala, which has a key role in mediating fear responses. Nevertheless, how this neuropeptide reaches these regions has been a matter of debate. Now, Knobloch, Charlet et al. show that axons of oxytocin-positive hypothalamic neurons pervade many forebrain areas and that axonal oxytocin release from such neurons in the central amygdala (CEA) reduces fear responses.
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