Neuroscience
Monogamous Prairie Voles Reveal the Neurobiology of Love
Studies of prairie voles are providing surprising new insights into how social bonds form
Dev Manoli is a psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco. His laboratory has pioneered the use of CRISPR to manipulate vole genomes to understand how the brain encodes attachments and how these processes are altered in neuropsychiatric illnesses. Credit: Nick Higgins
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