Kerstin Uvnäs Moberg, M.D., Ph.D., is recognised as a world authority on oxytocin. Her research takes place at the famed Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, and at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, where she is Professor of Physiology.
She is the author of more than 450 scientific papers and the books, She and He, The Oxytocin Factor, The Hormone of Closeness, Oxytocin: the Biological Guide to Motherhood, and co-author of Attachment to Pets.
Dr. Uvnäs Moberg lectures widely in Europe and the United States. Her work has been influential in a variety of fields, including physiology, women’s health, obstetrics, psychology, animal husbandry, physical therapy, pediatrics and child development.
She is a mother of four children, and she lives in Djursholm, Sweden.
