Oxytocin and experimental therapeutics in autism spectrum disorders

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 170, Issue , 2008, Pages 451-462

  Bartz, Jennifer A ^a   Hollander, Eric ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

autism spectrum disorders; experimental therapeutics; oxytocin; repetitive behaviours; social cognition; social functioning; treatment; vasopressin

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO;

ANXIETY; AUTISM; BACKACHE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; COMPULSION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DEPRESSION; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFICACY; ENURESIS; FATIGUE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEADACHE; HUMAN; MORNING DOSAGE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTLESSNESS; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; SNEEZING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STOMACH CRAMP; STOMACH DISEASE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFFECT; ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; COGNITION; COMMUNICATION; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OXYTOCIN; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH DISORDERS; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; UTERINE CONTRACTION;

EID: 47549114824     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)00435-4     Document Type: Review

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