Emory's Yerkes Center Gets Grant to Study Oxytocin

Emory University's Yerkes National Primate Research Center has received a $9.5 million grant to study the brain chemical oxytocin.

The five-year grant comes from the the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to set up a Silvio O. Conte Center in Neuroscience Research, which will take a closer look into the chemical "known for forming bonds between mother and baby," reads the news post on Emory's website.

Emory's Conte Center of Oxytocin and Social Cognition is described in the article as "the first NIH-funded center to explore how normal brain chemistry involved in mother-infant bonding and attachment affects brain communication and mental processing of social experiences in animals and humans, including those with autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia."
 
Larry Young, whose titles include chief of the Division of Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychiatric Disorders at the Yerkes Research Center, will head up the Conte team.

Read more about the grant and the Conte Center of Oxytocin and Social Cognition.