The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
And we know from Rob Malenka's work, who's here at Stanford, that oxytocin, you know, is the hormone that's involved in human pair bonding and relationships and love. And it directly links to dopamine neurons and causes the release of dopamine.
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showing that oxytocin and social connection is actually directly stimulating the dopamine pathway.
but oxytocin release is central to stimulating the dopamine pathways.
In addition to that, there are molecules like oxytocin, which are involved in pair bonding, and they're going to be neural circuit specific to the oxytocin circuitry, but in terms of sexual arousal and sexual behavior, it's really the dopamine pathway in this nucleus accumbens, which are especially vital.