Biobehavioral Responses to Stress in Females: Tend-and ...

(e.g., Panksepp, 1998) provide a foundation for this stress regula-tory system. Specifically, oxytocin and endogenous opioid mech-anisms may be at the core of the tend-and-befriend response. In essence, then, we are proposing the existence of an endoge-nous stress regulatory system that has heretofore been largely

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