{"id":1133,"date":"2025-07-22T19:48:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T19:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2025-07-23T11:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:27:10","slug":"tickling-strengthens-bonding-through-oxytocin-pathways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/tickling-strengthens-bonding-through-oxytocin-pathways\/","title":{"rendered":"Tickling Strengthens Bonding Through Oxytocin Pathways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neurosciencenews.com\/tickling-oxytocin-bonding-29508\/\" title=\"Tickling Strengthens Bonding Through Oxytocin Pathways\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1155\" height=\"770\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image lazyload\" alt=\"This shows a hand and neurons.\" style=\"float: left;margin-right: 5px\" data-src=\"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/tickling-oxytocin-bonding-neurosicne-1155x770-1.jpg\"><\/a>A new study reveals how pleasant touch fosters social bonds between humans and rats by activating oxytocin signaling in the brain. Researchers found that repeated tickling of rats increased their vocalizations, preference for human interaction, and oxytocin receptor expression in the VMHvl region. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study reveals how pleasant touch fosters social bonds between humans and rats by activating oxytocin signaling in the brain. Researchers found that repeated tickling of rats increased their vocalizations, preference for human interaction, and oxytocin receptor expression in the VMHvl region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sniffmybody.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}