Oxytocin is a pleiotropic, peptide hormone with broad implications for general health,
adaptation, development, reproduction, and social behavior. Endogenous oxytocin and …

The many facets of the oxytocin (OXT) system of the brain and periphery elicited nearly
25,000 publications since 1930 (see, as listed in PubMed), which revealed central roles for …

Reports on the modulatory role of the neuropeptide oxytocin on social cognition and
behavior have steadily increased over the last two decades, stimulating considerable …

Oxytocin, a neuropeptide known for its role in reproduction and socioemotional processes,
may hold promise as a therapeutic agent in treating social impairments in patient …

Gender differences in social anxiety disorder (SAD) have not received much empirical
attention despite the large body of research on the disorder, and in contrast to significant …

Oxytocin is a nonapeptide that also serves as a neuromodulator in the human central
nervous system. Over the last decade, a sizeable body of literature has examined its effects …

Despite widespread reports that intranasal application of oxytocin has a variety of behavioral
effects, very little of the huge amounts applied intranasally appears to reach the …

Background Current neuroimaging perspectives on a variety of mental disorders emphasize
dysfunction of the amygdala. The neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT), a key mediator in the …

The oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) has been studied as a risk factor for autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) owing to converging evidence from multiple levels of analysis that oxytocin …

Oxytocin (OT) is a neuropeptide, which can be seen to be one of the molecules of the
decade due to its profound prosocial effects in nonvertebrate and vertebrate species …