Oxytocin Enhances the Encoding of Positive Social Memories in Humans

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 256-258

  Guastella, Adam J ^a,b   Mitchell, Philip B ^a   Mathews, Frosso ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emotion; face recognition; oxytocin; peptide; social cognition

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTIMACY; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYTOCICS; OXYTOCIN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 46249099558     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2008.02.008     Document Type: Article

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