Intranasal Arginine Vasopressin Enhances the Encoding of Happy and Angry Faces in Humans

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1220-1222

  Guastella, Adam J ^a   Kenyon, Amanda R ^a   Alvares, Gail A ^a   Carson, Dean S ^a   Hickie, Ian B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggression; angry; bonding; cognition; emotion; face; face recognition; hormone; human; information processing; memory; oxytocin; peptide; social; vasopressin

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ADOLESCENT; ANGER; DRUG EFFECTS; HAPPINESS; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOGNITION;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGER; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 77953126435     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2010.03.014     Document Type: Article

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