{"id":34015,"date":"2017-02-01T14:25:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T22:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-illuminate-the-neurons-of-social-attraction"},"modified":"2017-04-26T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:09:08","slug":"scientists-illuminate-the-neurons-of-social-attraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/scientists-illuminate-the-neurons-of-social-attraction","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Illuminate the Neurons of Social Attraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-illuminate-the-neurons-of-social-attraction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ancient impulse to procreate is necessary for survival and must be hardwired into our brains. Now <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about scientists here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/scientists\/\">scientists<\/a> from the University of <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about North Carolina here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/north-carolina\/\">North Carolina<\/a> School of <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about Medicine here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/medicine\/\">Medicine<\/a> have discovered an important clue about the <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about neurons here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/neurons\/\">neurons<\/a> involved in that wiring.<\/p>\n<p>Using <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about advanced here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/advanced\/\">advanced<\/a> deep <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about brain here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/brain\/\">brain<\/a> <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about imaging here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/imaging\/\">imaging<\/a> techniques and <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about optogenetics here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/optogenetics\/\">optogenetics<\/a>, the <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about UNC here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/unc\/\">UNC<\/a> <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about scientists here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/scientists\/\">scientists<\/a> found that a small cluster of sex-hormone-sensitive <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about neurons here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/neurons\/\">neurons<\/a> in the mouse hypothalamus are specialized for inducing mice to \u201cnotice\u201d the opposite sex and trigger attraction.<\/p>\n<p>This study, led by Garret D. Stuber, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and cell biology &amp; physiology, and Jenna A. McHenry, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in Stuber\u2019s lab, identified a hormone-sensitive circuit in the <a class=\"\" title=\"View all articles about brain here\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/tag\/brain\/\">brain<\/a> that controls social motivation in female mice.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/scientists-illuminate-neurons-social-attraction\/\">http:\/\/www.scienceandtechnologyresearchnews.com\/scientists-i...ttraction\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ancient impulse to procreate is necessary for survival and must be hardwired into our brains. Now scientists from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine have discovered an important clue about the neurons involved in that wiring. Using advanced deep brain imaging techniques and optogenetics, the UNC scientists found that a small cluster [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,412,47,1901],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-genetics","category-neuroscience","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34015"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56409,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34015\/revisions\/56409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}