Andrew Huberman· PhD
it's so incredible that a eight amino acid long peptide could basically turn these um relatively negligent fathers into very attentive fathers
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it's so incredible that a eight amino acid long peptide could basically turn these um relatively negligent fathers into very attentive fathers
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the cleanest story was that Prairie voles are monogamous Mont voles are not monogamous but in the prairie vs you could give vasor pressen instead of mated cohabitation and you could turn on a like you know a bond with somebody after only living with them for a very short period of time right um or you could induce paternal behavior
there were studies in the early to mid 1990 showing that vasopressin was critical for male social behavior and so um there was work you know there was a variety of people and I I think Rob Minka mentioned this on his on on the podcast he did about you know there's a a group of people like Sue Carter Larry young Tom inso some of these early people and they gave Vasa pressen to male Prairie voles and V vasopressin was what induced um pair bonding um with a a female mate and also paternal care
I was able to put Vaso pressent directly into their brains and and it was like turning on a light switch and they ran around the cage picked up all these babies put them in a nest and huddled over them and if you put a placebo into their brain nothing happened