Background: Oxytocin (OXT) plays a prominent role in social cognition and may have clinical
applications for disorders such as autism, schizophrenia and social anxiety. The neural …

Oxytocin (OT) is a neuropeptide that mediates a variety of complex social behaviors in
animals and humans. Intranasal OT has been used as an experimental therapeutic for …

In recent years ample studies have reported that intranasal administration of the
neuropeptide oxytocin can facilitate social motivation and cognition in healthy and clinical …

In non-human mammals, the neuropeptide oxytocin is a key mediator of complex emotional
and social behaviors, including attachment, social recognition, and aggression. Oxytocin …

Emotional experience involves an integrated interplay between processing of external
emotional cues and interoceptive feedback, and this is impaired in a number of emotional …

Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is associated with altered face processing and
decreased activity in brain regions involved in face processing. The neuropeptide oxytocin …

The neuropeptide oxytocin plays an evolutionarily conserved role in mammalian social
behavior. Despite striking effects on animal social behavior after intracerebroventricular drug …

The neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) has previously been found to reduce amygdala reactivity
to social and emotional stimuli in healthy men. The present study aimed to investigate the …

The neuropeptide oxytocin (OT) is well known for its profound effects on social behavior,
which appear to be mediated by an OT-dependent modulation of amygdala activity in the …

In line with animal models indicating sexually dimorphic effects of oxytocin (OXT) on social-
emotional processing, a growing number of OXT-administration studies in humans have …