Oxytocin: the social hormone

Oxytocin: the social hormone

"The man is a social being. We are born in a more immature state than any other animal. This requires that the human being needs others in an absolute way. He needs adults, parents, who will help him survive and mature. And we speak not only of psychological maturation, but obviously of physical maturation.

Thus masterfully defined the philosopher Aristotle, one of the pillars of humanity that science has taken centuries to know empirically. However, at present, it is already known that sociability processes are defined shortly after our birth.

Oxytocin is actively involved in maternal attachment and it is intuited - although studies in this regard are still inconclusive - that orgasm is also closely related to this hormone. These types of studies are only the iceberg of a long etcetera, which has as a climax an evidence in which it is stated that this hormone, also intervenes in the processes of socialization, as well as the establishment of social bonds.

The hormone oxytocin is social and sexual

Also called "love hormone" or "cuddly hormone", this is one of the most important in terms of developing social bonds during childhood, according to numerous studies from different perspectives, such as the one designed by the Complutense University of Madrid, around the relationship that exists between social networks and personal well-being, which demonstrates that it is released in large quantities when it is linked to a membership group as well as to attachment groups.

These networks also extend to the impulse felt by all those who seek their own happiness in solidarity ties since, in this case, the level of oxytocin also increases significantly with respect to those of people who are not linked to any group.

With all this, it is partially concluded that oxytocin is the humanist hormone par excellence, in which more complex processes of exchange intervene and that it somewhat shapes the social character of each human being.

ASD (autism spectrum disorder): when oxytocin is not released

On the opposite side are all those people who suffer from significant deficiencies to be able to conceive life in society. For a person with ASD, the rest of human beings are alien to their own person. Of course, there are numerous degrees of autism, being able to find the most accused cases with inability to perform actions such as speaking, or others who apparently should not have any problem, in their relations with the rest since they have the basic skills for social exchange.

The main drawback appears when certain behaviors, such as lack of eye contact, empathy, or assertiveness, lead to work problems; and in the social relationships of these individuals who are trapped in a universe that is very different from yours. That's when they go from being "weird people" to "people with an autism spectrum disorder."

In fact, for years they were considered people with intellectual disabilities and, even today, there are still certain judgments around people with ASD. However, the reality is that these people have broad intellectual abilities and abilities only that at the functional level, at the level of utility in society, they do not meet social expectations and roles.

In this regard, oxytocin as a treatment has been proposed as one of the leading causes of this millennium, to become responsible for the development of social relations. Thus, according to various studies carried out in the 1990s, it is revealed that a determining fact in the development of ASD can be found.

However, there is still much to reveal all the secrets of one of the most mysterious and, in some ways, exciting disorders in the neuroscientific world.

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