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. Walum H, Westberg L, Henningsson S, Neiderhiser JM, Reiss D, Igl W, Ganiban JM, Spotts EL, Pedersen NL, Eriksson E, and Lichtenstein P. Genetic variation in the vasopressin receptor 1A epigenetic (AVPR1A) associates with pair-bonding behavior in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2008, 105(37): 14153–56.
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. Harkey SL, Brock AB, Kuehnmunch M, Krzywosinski T, Mitry MA, and Aragona BJ. Opioid regulation of pair bonding in the monogamous prairie vole. Program No. 387. 4/DDD6. 2010 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, Calif.: Society for Neuroscience, 2010. Online.

Chapter 9: Mommy (and Daddy) Brain

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. Mcewen, B. Meeting report: Is there a neurobiology of love? Molecular Psychiatry. 1997, 2(1): 15–16.
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. Ferris CF, Kulkarni P, Sullivan JM Jr., Harder JA, Messenger TL, and Febo M. Pup suckling is more rewarding than cocaine: Evidence from functional magnetic resonance imaging and three-diMensional computational analysis. Journal of Neuroscience. 2005, 25(1): 149–56.
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. Swain JE, Lorberbaum JP, Kose S, and Strathearn L. Brain basis of early parent-infant interactions: Psychology, physiology, and in vivo functional neuroimaging studies.
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
. 2007, 48(3–4): 262–87.
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. Champagne F, Diorio J, Sharma S, and Meaney MJ. Naturally occurring variations in maternal behavior
in the rat are associated with Differences in estrogen-inducible central oxytocin receptors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2001, 98(22): 12736–41.
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. Champagne FA, Chretinumberlist P, stevenson CW, Zhang T-Y, Gratton A, and Meaney MJ. Variations in nucleus accumbens dopamine associated with individual Differences in maternal behavior in the rat. Journal of Neuroscience. 2004, 24(17): 4113–23.
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. Shahrokh DK, Zhang T-Y, Diorio J, Gratton A, and Meaney MJ. Oxytocin-dopamine interactions mediate variations in maternal behavior in the rat. Endocrinology. 2010, 151(5): 2276–86.
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. Ross HE and Young LJ. Oxytocin and the neural mechanisms regulating social cognition and affiliative behavior. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology. 2009, 30(4): 534–47.
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. Feldman R, Weller A, Zagoory-Sharon O, and Levine A. Evidence for a neuroendocrinological foundation for human affiliation. Psychological Science. 2007, 18(11): 965–70.
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. Bartels A and Zeki S. The neural correlates of maternal and romantic love. Neuroimage. 2004, 21(3): 1155–66.
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. Leibenluft E, Gobbini MI, Harrison T, and Haxby JV. Mothers’ neural activation in response to pictures of their children and other children. Biological Psychiatry. 2004, 56:225–32.
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. Swain JE, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Constable RT, and Schultz RT. Neural substrates and psychology of human parent-infant attachment in the postpartum. Biological Psychiatry. 2004, 55:153S.
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. Noriuchi M, Kikuchi Y, and senoo A. The functional neuroanatomy of maternal love: Mother’s response to infant’s attachment behaviors. Biological Psychiatry. 2008, 63(4): 415–23.
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. Kim P, Leckman JF, Mayes LC, Feldman R, Wang X, and Swain JE. The plasticity of human maternal brain: Longitudinal changes in brain anatomy during the early postpartum period. Behavioral Neuroscience. 2010, 124(5): 695–700.
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. Gordon I, Zagoory-Sharon O, Leckman JF, and Feldman R. Oxytocin and the developMent of parent-ing in humans. Biological Psychiatry. 2010, 68(4): 377–82.
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. Feldman R, Gordon I, Schneiderman I, Weisman O, and Zagoory-Sharon O. Natural variations in maternal and paternal care are associated with systematic changes in oxytocin following parent-infant contact. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2010, 35(8): 1133–41.

Chapter 10: Might as Well Face It, You’re Addicted to Love

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. Ke$ha, “Your Love Is My Drug.” Spin Doctors, “I Can’t Kick the Habit.” Barry White, “Can’t Get enough of Your Love, Babe.” Diana Ross, “Love Hangover.” The Four Tops, “Baby, I Need Your Lovin.’” Mariah Carey, “Can’t Let Go.”
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. Beydoun SR, Wang JT, Levine RL, and Farvid A. Emotional stress as a trigger of myasthenic crisis and concomitant Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: A case report. Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2010, 4:393.
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. Frascella J, Frascella MN, Brown LL, and Childress AR. Shared brain vulnerabilities open the way for nonsubstance addictions: Carving addiction at a new joint? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2010. 1187:294–315.
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. Ibid.
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. Schultz W. Multiple reward signals in the brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience. 2000, 1:199–207.
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. Insel TR. Is social attachment an addictive disorder? Physiology and Behavior. 2003, 79:351–57.
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. Szalavitz M. The “mommy brain” is bigger: How love grows a new mother’s brain. Time. 21 October 2010.
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. Kinsley CH and Meyer EA. The construction of the maternal brain: Theoretical comMent on Kim et al. (2010). Behavioral Neuroscience. 2010, 124(5): 710–14.
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. Fisher HE, Brown LL, Aron A, Strong G, and Mashek D. Reward, addiction and emotion regulation systems associated with rejection in love. Journal of Neurophysiology. 2010, 104(1): 51–60.
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. Davis JF, Loos M, Di Sebastiano AR, Brown JL, Nehman MN, and Coolen LM. Lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex cause maladaptive sexual behavior in male rats. Biological Psychiatry. 2010, 67(12): 1199–204.
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. Edwards S and Self DW. Monogamy: Dopamine ties the knot. Nature Neuroscience. 2006, 9(1): 7–8.
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. Garcia JR, MacKillop J, Aller EL, Merriwether AM, Wilson D, and Lum JK. Associations between dopamine D4 receptor epigenetic variation with both infidelity
and sexual promiscuity. PLoS ONE. 2010, 5(11): e14162.

Chapter 11: Your Cheating Mind

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. Spring JA and Spring M. After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful. 1997. Harper Paperbacks, New York.
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. Zuk M. Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can’t Learn about Sex from Animals. 2003. University of California Press, Berkeley.
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. Harlow JM. Recovery from the Passage of an Iron Bar through the Head. 1869. David Clapp & Son, New York.
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. Pitkow LJ, Sharer Ren, CA X, Insel TR, Terwilliger EF, and Young LJ. Facilitation of affiliation and pair-bond formation by vasopressin receptor epigenetic transfer into the ventral forebrain of a monogamous vole. Journal of Neuroscience. 2001, 21(18): 7392–96.
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. Walum H, Westberg L, Henningsson S, Neiderhiser JM, Reiss D, Igl W, Ganiban JM, Spotts EL, Pedersen NL, Eriksson E, and Lichtenstein P. Genetic variation in the vasopressin receptor 1A epigenetic (AVPR1A) associates with pair-bonding behavior in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2008, 105(37): 14153–56.
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. Holden C. Why Men cheat. Science. 2 September 2008.
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. No author listed. Infidelity: It’s all in the epigenetics. SkyNews. 3 September 2008.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Health/Unfaithfulness-infidelity-Men-woman-epigenetics-marriage/Article/200809115091928
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. Garcia JR, MacKillop J, Aller EL, Merriwether AM, Wilson DS, and Lum JK. Associations between dopamine D4 receptor epigenetic variation with both infidelity and sexual promiscuity. PLoS One. 2010, 5(11): e14162.
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. Ophir AG, Phelps SM, Sorin AB, and Wolff JO. Social but not Genetic monogamy is associated with greater breeding success in prairie voles. Animal Behaviour. 2008, 75(3): 1143–54. (Highlighted in
Nature.
2008, 451:617.)
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. Ophir AG, Gessel A, Zheng DJ, and Phelps SM. A socio-spatial memory neural circuit predicts male monogamy in the field. Program No. 387.10/EEE2. 2010 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, Calif.: Society for Neuroscience, 2010. Online.
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. Weymouth WL, Richman E, and Phelps SM. Evolutionary remains: Differences in heritability of forebrain V1aR. Program No. 387. 9/EEE1. 2010 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, Calif.: Society for Neuroscience, 2010. Online.
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. Cho MM, DeVries AC, Williams JR, and Carter SC. The effects of oxytocin and vasopressin on partner preferences in male and female prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).
Behavioral Neuroscience
. 1999, 113(5): 1071–79.
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. Bales KL and Carter CS. DevelopMental exposure to oxytocin facilitates partner preferences in male prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster).
Behavioral Neuroscience
. 2003, 117(4): 854–59.

Chapter 12: My Adventures with the O-Team

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. Herbenick D, Reece M, Schick V, Sanders SA, Dodge B, and Fortenberry JD. An event-level analysis of the sexual characteristics and composition among adults ages 18 to 59: Results from a national probability sample in the United States. Journal of Sexual Medicine. 2010, 7 (SuppleMent 5): 346–61.
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. Georgiadis JR, Simone Reinders AA, Paans AM, renken R, and Kortekaas R. Men versus women on sexual brain function: Prominent Differences during tactile genital stimulation, but not during orgasm. Human Brain Mapping. 2009, 30(10): 3089–101.
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. Komisaruk BR and Whipple B. Functional MRI of the brain during orgasm in women. Annual Review of Sex Research. 2005, 16:62–86.
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. Arnow BA, Desmond JE, Banner LL, Glover GH, Solomon A, Polan ML, Lue TF, and Atlas SW. Brain activation and sexual arousal in healthy, heterosexual males. Brain. 2002, 125(Part 5): 1014–23.
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. Georgiadis JR, Reinders AA, Van der Graaf FH, Paans AM, and Kortekaas R. Brain activation during human male ejaculation revisited. Neuroreport. 2007, 18(6): 553–57.
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. Georgiadis et al. Men versus women on sexual brain function.

Chapter 13: A Question of Orientation

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. Derfner J. Swish: My Quest to Become the Gayest Person Ever and What Ended Up Happening Instead. 2009. Broadway Books, New York.
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. Wiltgen SM. A historical review of research related to the neurobiology of homosexuality. Program No. 21. 8/NNN6. 2010 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, Calif.: Society for Neuroscience, 2010. Online.
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. LeVay S. Gay, Straight and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation. 2010. Oxford University Press, New York.
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. Grosjean Y, Grillet M, Augustin H, Ferveur JF, and Featherstone DE. A glial amino-acid transporter controls synapse strength and courtship in Drosophila. Nature Neuroscience. 2008, 11(1): 54–61.
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. Park D, Choi D, Lee J, Lim DS, and Park C. Male-like sexual behavior of female mouse lacking fucosemutarotase. BMC Genetics. 2010, 7(11): 62.
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. Wallen K and Parsons WA. Sexual behavior in same-sexed nonhuman
primates: Is it relevant to understanding human sexuality? Annual Review of Sex Research. 1997, 8:195–223.
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. Roselli CE, Larkin K, Resko JA, Stellflug JN, and Stormshak F. The volume of sexually dimorphic nucleus in the ovine medial preoptic area/anterior hypothalamus varies with sexual partner preference. Endocrinology. 2004, 145(2): 478–83.
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. Mustanski BS, Dupree MG, Nievergelt CM, Bocklandt S, Schork NJ, and Hamer DH. A genomewide scan of male sexual Orientation. Human Genetics. 2004, 116(4): 272–78.
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. Hu S-H, Wei N, Wang Q-D, Yan L-Q, Wei E-Q, Zhang M-M, Hu J-B, Huang M-L, Zhou W-H, and Xu Y. Patterns of brain activation during visually evoked sexual arousal differ between homosexual and heterosexual Men. American Journal of Neuroradiology. 2008, 29:1890–96.
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. Bao A-M and Swaab DF. Sex Differences in the brain, behavior and neuropsychiatric disorders. Neuroscientist. 2010, 16(5): 550–65.
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. Blanchard R. Quantitative and theoretical analyses of the relation between older brothers and homosexuality in Men. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 2004, 230(2): 173–87.
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. Rahman Q. The neurodevelopMent of human sexual Orientation. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 2005, 29(7): 1057–66.
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. Savic I, Berglund H, and Lindströ P. Brain response to putative pheromones in homosexual Men. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2005, 102(20): 7356–61.
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. Berglund H, Lindströ P, and Savic I. Brain response to putative pheromones in lesbian women. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2006, 103(21): 8269–74.
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. Berglund H, Lindströ P, Dhejne-Helmy C, and Savic I. Male-to-female transsexuals show sex-atypical hypothalamus activation when smelling odorous steroids. Cerebral Cortex. 2008, 18(8): 1900–908.
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. Zeki S and Romaya JP. The brain reaction to viewing faces of
opposite- and same-sex romantic partners. PLoS ONE. 2010, 5(12): e15802.

Chapter 14: Stupid Is as Stupid Loves

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. Karremans JC, Verwijmeren T, Pronk TM, and Reitsma M. Interacting with women can impair Men’s cognitive functioning. Journal of ExperiMental Social Psychology. 2009, 45(4): 1041–44.

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