The neuropeptide oxytocin has attracted great attention of the general public, basic
neuroscience researchers, psychologists, and psychiatrists due to its profound pro-social …

Over the past century, the polypeptide oxytocin has played an important role in medicine
with major highlights including the identification of its involvement in parturition and the milk …

Deficits in social behavioral domains, such as interpersonal communication, emotion
recognition, and empathy, are a characteristic symptom in several neuropsychiatric …

Oxytocin (OT), a hypothalamic neuropeptide involved in regulating the social behaviour of
all vertebrates, has been proposed as a treatment for a number of neuropsychiatric …

Oxytocin (oxy) is a pituitary neuropeptide hormone synthesized from the paraventricular and
supraoptic nuclei within the hypothalamus. Like other neuropeptides, oxy can modulate a …

The neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT), highly conserved during evolution, is an important
modulator of social and emotional processes across many species. During the last decade …

Social dysfunction is a core symptom of many psychiatric disorders and current medications
have little or no remedial effects on this. Following on from extensive studies on animal …

The nonapeptide oxytocin is considered beneficial to mental health due to its anxiolytic,
prosocial and antistress effects, but evidence for anxiogenic actions of oxytocin in humans …

The brain oxytocin system has served as a distinguished model system in
neuroendocrinology to study detailed mechanisms of intracerebral release, in particular of …

Is oxytocin the hormone of happiness? Probably not. However, this small nine amino acid
peptide is involved in a wide variety of physiological and pathological functions such as …