Prairie and Meadow vole

Question 1

name three molecules responsible for the chemistry of pair bonding

Answer 1

OT and VP = social recognition
Dopamine = reinforcement learning
Opiates = hedonic

Question 2

experiment for dopamine in pair bonding

Answer 2

D2R receptor antagonist = block pair bonding entirely

D1R = no difference

Question 3

experiment for opioid

Answer 3

morphine antagonist injected into caudate putamen = block pair bonding

Question 4

what happened to low OTR in Nacc?

Answer 4

impact early stress in social cognition = no pair bonding

Question 5

what happened to pair bonding due to early life separation?

Answer 5

pair bonding is impaired in females with their partner

Question 6

which receptor plays a key role in formation of pair bonding?

Answer 6

vasopressin receptor