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''...this increase in oxytocin levels has been related to the existence of a sensitive period with a specific neuro-hormonal scenario.'' What does this sentence mean? I couldn't understand the meaning. Could you help me please?

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anonymousI couldn't understand the meaning.

Welcome to the club. Nobody thinks they need an editor until it's too late.

That was written by Ibone Olza Fernández, Miguel Marín Gabriel, Ana Malalana Martínez, Aurora Fernández-Cañadas Morillo, Francisco López Sánchez, and Valeria Costarelli in Madrid. It's a safe bet that English is not the first language of any of them, and it shows. I suspect that "with" should be "within"—within a specific neuro-hormonal scenario. There is also a mistake in the online abstract, which is all I can see of it. They write "The secondary objective was to observe the influence of intrapartum oxytocin may have on breastfeeding." which should be "The secondary objective was to observe the influence that intrapartum oxytocin may have on breastfeeding."

Anyway,

anonymousthis increase in oxytocin levels has been related to the existence of a sensitive period

Data has been collected that indicates a relationship between two things, this increase in oxytocin levels and a corresponding period of time in which the woman is sensitive to something previously mentioned.

anonymouswithin a specific neuro-hormonal scenario.

This period of time only occurs when a certain state exists in the woman, when her hormones and neurological state are some particular way.

My paraphrases are only a guess. "With" is nonsense, so I have to guess, and I am sure that the context would help it all make sense.

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