PSYC318-Flowchart

Flowchart nodes

• OT (hypothalamus)

• serotonin releasing cells (OTR) in dorsal raphe

• reducing the amount of glutamate release    

• All we know is that OT and serotonin both cause a reduction in glutamate strength and are both needed for social reward (this is only a correlation, not causation). They don’t actually prove that the reduction in strength of glutamatergic input is necessary for the social reward