Oxytocin Enhances the Dopamine Reward Pathway

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🗃 Resources:: Dopamine Nation (2021)
2026-06-10

Oxytocin, a hormone much involved with falling in love, mother-child bonding, and lifetime pair bonding of sexual mates, binds to receptors on the dopamine-secreting neurons in the brain's reward pathway and enhances the firing of the reward-circuit tract.