Mother-Child Bonding Tied to Opiate Receptors
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Pleasure receptors best known for helping the body respond to morphine and opium may hold the key to mother-child bonding, scientists report in this week’s issue of Science.
Mice pups genetically engineered to lack mu-opioid receptors were unable to properly bond to their mothers and did not show distress when separated from them.
