Comments on: What’s It Got To Do With Love? http://www.blisstree.com/articles/whats-it-got-to-do-with-love/ Family, Health, Home and Lifestyles Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:00:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Genes Linked to Social Impairments http://www.blisstree.com/articles/whats-it-got-to-do-with-love/comment-page-1/#comment-548705 Genes Linked to Social Impairments Wed, 14 May 2008 16:00:47 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/whats-it-got-to-do-with-love/#comment-548705 [...] suggest that two neurohormones which are linked to affiliative behaviors in animals, prolactin and oxytocin, are linked to affiliative behaviors characteristic of autism. From Science Daily: ….One [...] [...] suggest that two neurohormones which are linked to affiliative behaviors in animals, prolactin and oxytocin, are linked to affiliative behaviors characteristic of autism. From Science Daily: ….One [...]

]]> By: About the Love Hormone and About Love http://www.blisstree.com/articles/whats-it-got-to-do-with-love/comment-page-1/#comment-548913 About the Love Hormone and About Love Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:05:16 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/whats-it-got-to-do-with-love/#comment-548913 [...] Oxytocin is sometimes called the “love hormone”; it is a brain chemical that is associated with pair bonding, between mothers and infants and also between males and females. It seems to play a role in social and repetitive behaviors, and researchers at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine have found that oxytocin may reduce some repetitive behaviors in autistic adults. The February 14th Science Daily reports on a study at the University of California at San Diego that is using oxytocin to treat anxiety: In humans, oxytocin is released during hugging and pleasant physical touch, and plays a part in the human sexual response cycle. It appears to change the brain signals related to social recognition via facial expressions, perhaps by changing the firing of the amygdala, the part of the brain that plays a primary role in the processing of important emotional stimuli. In this way, oxytocin in the brain may be a potent mediator of human social behavior. [...] [...] Oxytocin is sometimes called the “love hormone”; it is a brain chemical that is associated with pair bonding, between mothers and infants and also between males and females. It seems to play a role in social and repetitive behaviors, and researchers at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine have found that oxytocin may reduce some repetitive behaviors in autistic adults. The February 14th Science Daily reports on a study at the University of California at San Diego that is using oxytocin to treat anxiety: In humans, oxytocin is released during hugging and pleasant physical touch, and plays a part in the human sexual response cycle. It appears to change the brain signals related to social recognition via facial expressions, perhaps by changing the firing of the amygdala, the part of the brain that plays a primary role in the processing of important emotional stimuli. In this way, oxytocin in the brain may be a potent mediator of human social behavior. [...]

]]> By: Patrick http://www.blisstree.com/articles/whats-it-got-to-do-with-love/comment-page-1/#comment-536719 Patrick Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:22:48 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/whats-it-got-to-do-with-love/#comment-536719 (Hey! Maybe they have to try the mind-altering virus approach!) Whatever the study results and outcomes, this phrase in parentheses above I find to be offensively poor authoring. (Hey! Maybe they have to try the mind-altering virus approach!)

Whatever the study results and outcomes, this phrase in parentheses above I find to be offensively poor authoring.

]]> By: Marcie http://www.blisstree.com/articles/whats-it-got-to-do-with-love/comment-page-1/#comment-536818 Marcie Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:06:09 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/whats-it-got-to-do-with-love/#comment-536818 I'm very sensitive to the release of oxytocin - or at least I've learned to recognize it, whether it's from company that I trully enjoy (i.e. not most kinds that make me anxious) or a good hug (i.e. not a tapping kind of hug). I know for me, it's the lack of appropriate circumstances that causes a decreased amount of oxytocin. I’m very sensitive to the release of oxytocin – or at least I’ve learned to recognize it, whether it’s from company that I trully enjoy (i.e. not most kinds that make me anxious) or a good hug (i.e. not a tapping kind of hug). I know for me, it’s the lack of appropriate circumstances that causes a decreased amount of oxytocin.

]]> By: MomtoJBG http://www.blisstree.com/articles/whats-it-got-to-do-with-love/comment-page-1/#comment-536912 MomtoJBG Wed, 22 Aug 2007 03:28:58 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/whats-it-got-to-do-with-love/#comment-536912 That is so sweet, about Charlie taking off his shoes and making him lie down. We always try to get G. to say "bye" to his various therapists, which he usually won't. But once they walk out, he goes to the door and watches as they drive away, which at this point is his form of "goodbye", I think. That is so sweet, about Charlie taking off his shoes and making him lie down.

We always try to get G. to say “bye” to his various therapists, which he usually won’t.
But once they walk out, he goes to the door and watches as they drive away, which at this point is his form of “goodbye”, I think.

]]> By: Kristina Chew, PhD http://www.blisstree.com/articles/whats-it-got-to-do-with-love/comment-page-1/#comment-537044 Kristina Chew, PhD Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:28:24 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/whats-it-got-to-do-with-love/#comment-537044 You can email me the link too (kristina AT b5media DOT com) and I'll send it on--- You can email me the link too (kristina AT b5media DOT com) and I’ll send it on—

]]> By: passionlessDrone http://www.blisstree.com/articles/whats-it-got-to-do-with-love/comment-page-1/#comment-537046 passionlessDrone Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:21:33 +0000 http://www.autismvox.com/whats-it-got-to-do-with-love/#comment-537046 Hello friends - Another study was performed with Oxytocin showing improvements in the ability to detect social components of speech. Sending links can keep posts from showing up, Google, "Oxytocin Increases Retention of Social Cognition in Autism" and you'll get a hit. OK! pd Hello friends -

Another study was performed with Oxytocin showing improvements in the ability to detect social components of speech.

Sending links can keep posts from showing up, Google, “Oxytocin Increases Retention of Social Cognition in Autism” and you’ll get a hit.

OK!

pd

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