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‘Love Hormone’ Oxytocin could also promote dad-child bonding: study

AIMAN INAM

CHICAGO: Savants are convinced that Oxytocin – love hormone – not only bonds mother-child relationship, but also brings the dadzo and kid closer. This results into augmented parental care-giving.

Study senior scientist from the Emory University in Atlanta, GA, James Rilling and colleagues maintained that men too go through hormonal fluctuations after becoming fathers.

Researchers are optimistic that the fresh findings could assist in developing novel antidotes to ward-off postnatal depression among fathers.

Pundits have set out to examine the impacts of Oxytocin on brain activity dictating paternal deeds.

Healthy fathers (with one to two-year-old children) were keenly observed after having been administered doses of ‘love hormone’ via nasal spray.

The said fathers were also made to go through functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) while eyeing three dissimilar pictures (such as snap of their kids, an unfamiliar enfant and adult).

It transpired that Oxytocin could burgeon dad’s brain movement in response to the snaps of their babies.

All the pops have been reported with an augmented neural activity in the caudate nucleus, dorsal anterior cingulate, and visual cortex of the brain, which are affiliated with reward and empathy.

Hence proved that Oxytocin could boom paternal behavior, asserted academics in the journal Hormones and Behavior.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.