Accurate interpretation and appropriate expression of emotions are key aspects of social-
cognition. Several mental disorders are characterised by transdiagnostic difficulties in these …

Many studies have highlighted the potential of oxytocin (OT) to enhance facial affect
recognition in healthy humans. However, inconsistencies have emerged with regard to the …

The oxytocinergic system has recently been placed amongst the most promising targets for
various psychiatric treatments due to its role in prosocial behavior and anxiety reduction …

Evidence suggests that intranasal oxytocin enhances the perception of emotion in facial
expressions during standard emotion identification tasks. However, it is not clear whether …

BACKGROUND: The ability to “read the mind” of other individuals, that is, to infer their
mental state by interpreting subtle social cues, is indispensable in human social interaction …

Intranasal oxytocin exerts wide-ranging effects on socioemotional behavior and is proposed
as a potential therapeutic intervention in psychiatric disorders. However, following intranasal …

Recent studies have suggested oxytocin's therapeutic effects on deficits in social
communication and interaction in autism spectrum disorder through improvement of emotion …

Sensing others' emotions through subtle facial expressions is a highly important social skill.
We investigated the effects of intranasal oxytocin treatment on the evaluation of explicit and …

Over the past two decades, research about the role of oxytocin (OT) in human behavior has
grown exponentially. However, a unified theory of OT effects has yet to be developed …

Animal studies have shown the role of oxytocin in affiliation and attachment, and recent
evidence suggests that oxytocin is also involved in human models of approach behaviour …