Chronic depression disorders (CDD) are characterized by impaired social cognitive
functioning. Visual attention during social perception is altered in clinical depression and is …

Background Chronic depression is characterized by a high degree of early life trauma,
psychosocial impairment, and deficits in social cognition. Undisturbed recognition and …

Objective Difficulties in social cognition are common in individuals with schizophrenia (SZ)
and are not ameliorated by antipsychotic treatment. Intranasal oxytocin (OT) administration …

Intranasal oxytocin (OT) can enhance emotion recognition, perhaps by promoting increased
attention to social cues. Some studies indicate that individuals with difficulties processing …

MacDonald et al.(2013) recently demonstrated that men suffering from major depressive
disorder (MDD) show increased anxiety following 20 min of psychotherapy under the …

Previous studies have shown that oxytocin improves the encoding and recognition of facial
expressions, which has been proposed to be mediated by an increased exploration of the …

BACKGROUND: In nonhuman mammals, oxytocin has a critical role in peer recognition and
social approach behavior. In humans, oxytocin has been found to enhance trust and the …

A key functional effect of intranasal oxytocin with potential therapeutic relevance for autism-
spectrum disorder is its reported facilitation of attention towards social stimuli, notably the …

Objective Oxytocin is a neuropeptide that is involved in social emotional processing. A
leading hypothesis is that oxytocin facilitates positive prosocial behaviors; the peptide may …

Objectives: Previous studies have found that oxytocin (OXT) can improve the recognition of
emotional facial expressions; it has been proposed that this effect is mediated by an …