Oxytocin receptor gene associated with the efficiency of social auditory processing

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue NOV, 2011, Pages

  Tops, Mattie ^a,b   van Ijzendoorn, Marinus H ^a   Riem, Madelon M E ^a   Boksem, Maarten A S ^c,d   Bakermans Kranenburg, Marian J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d ERASMUS UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Auditory processing; Autism; Oxtr; Oxytocin

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HEARING; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR GENE; RECEPTOR GENE; SOCIAL AUDITORY PROCESSING;

EID: 84858704317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2011.00060     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Alcántara, J. I., Weisblatt, E. J., Moore, B. C., and Bolton, P. F. (2004). Speech-in-noise perception in high-functioning individuals with autism or Asperger's syndrome. J. Child Psychol. Psychiatry 45, 1107-1114.
2. Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., and Van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2008). Oxy-tocin receptor OXTR and serotonin transporter 5-HTT genes associated with observed parenting. Soc. Cogn. Affect. Neurosci. 3, 128-134.
3. Baron-Cohen, S. (2002). The extreme male brain theory of autism. Trends Cogn. Sci. 6, 248-254.
4. Ceponiene, R., Lepistö, T., Shes-takova, A., Vanhala, R., Alku, P., Näätänen, R., and Yaguchi, K. (2003). Speech-sound-selective auditory impairment in children with autism: they can perceive but do not attend. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100, 5567-5572.
5. Costa, B., Pini, S., Gabelloni, P., Abelli, M., Lari, L., Cardini, A., Muti, M., Gesi, C., Landi, S., Galderisi, S., Mucci, A., Lucacchini, A., Cas-sano, G. B., and Martini, C. (2009). Oxytocin receptor polymorphisms and adult attachment style in patients with depression. Psychoneu-roendocrinology 34, 1506-1514.
6. De Dreu, C. K. W., Greer, L. L., Handgraaf, M. J. J., Shalvi, S., Van Kleef, G. A., Baas, M., Ten Velden, F. S., Van Dijk, E., and Feith, S. W. W. (2010). The neuropeptide oxytocin regulates parochial altruism in intergroup conflict among humans. Science 328, 1408-1411.
7. Domes, G., Heinrichs, M., Michel, A., Berger, C., and Herpertz, S. C. (2007). Oxytocin improves "mind-reading" in humans. Biol. Psychiatry 61, 731-733.
8. Frye, R. E., Wu, M., Liederman, J., and McGraw Fisher, J. (2010). Greater pre-stimulus effective connectivity from the left inferior frontal area to other areas is associated with better phonological decoding in dyslexic readers. Front. Syst. Neu-rosci. 4:156. doi:10.3389/fnsys.2010. 00156
9. Guastella, A. J., Einfeld, S. L, Gray, K. M., Rinehart, N. J., Tonge, B. J., Lambert, T. J., and Hickie, I. B. (2010). Intranasal oxytocin improves emotion recognition for youth with autism spectrum disorders. Biol. Psychiatry 67, 692-694.
10. Hartman, C. A., and Rothbart, M. K. (2001). Dutch Translation of the Adult Temperament Questionnaire. Groningen: Department of Psychiatry, Internal publication ARIADNE research group.
11. Hendriks, J., Hofstee, W. K. B., and De Raad, B. (1999). The five-factor personality inventory (FFPI). Pers. Individ. Dif. 27, 307-325.
12. Hollander, E., Bartz, J., Chaplin, W., Phillips, A., Sumner, J., Soorya, L., Anagnostou, E., and Wasserman, S. (2007). Oxytocin increases retention of social cognition in autism. Biol. Psychiatry 61, 498-503.
13. Jabbi, M., Swart, M., and Keysers, C. (2007). Empathy for positive and negative emotions in the gustatory cortex. Neuroimage 34, 1744-1753.
14. Kanwal, J. S., and Rao, P. D. (2002). Oxytocin within auditory nuclei: a neuromodulatory function in sensory processing? Neuroreport 13, 2193-2197.
15. Kim, H. S., Sherman, D. K., Mojaver-ian, T., Sasaki, J. Y., Park, J., Suh, E. M., and Taylor, S. E. (2011). Gene-culture interaction: Oxy-tocin receptor polymorphism (OXTR) and emotion regulation. Soc. Psychol. Personal. Sci. doi:10.1177/1948550611405854
16. Kim, H. S., Sherman, D. K., Sasaki, J. Y., Xu, J., Chu, T. Q., Ryu, C., Suh, E. M., Graham, K., and Taylor, S. E. (2010). Culture, distress, and oxytocin receptor polymorphism (OXTR) interact to influence emotional support seeking. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107, 15717-15721.
17. Kosfeld, M., Heinrichs, M., Zak, P. J., Fischbacher, U., and Fehr, E. (2005). Oxytocin increases trust in humans. Nature 435, 673-676.
18. Kulesza, R. J. Jr., Lukose, R., and Stevens, L. V. (2011). Malformation of the human superior olive in autistic spectrum disorders. Brain Res. 1367, 360-371.
19. Leitman, D. I., Wolf, D. H., Ragland, J. D., Laukka, P., Loughead, J., Valdez, J. N., Javitt, D. C., Turetsky, B. I., and Gur, R. C. (2010). "It's not what you say, but how you say it" a reciprocal temporo-frontal network for affective prosody. Front. Hum. Neurosci. 4:19. doi:10.3389/fnhum.2010.00019
20. Lepistö, T., Kujala, T., Vanhala, R., Alku, P., Huotilainen, M., and Näätänen, R. (2005). The discrimination of and orienting to speech and non-speech sounds in children with autism. Brain Res. 1066, 147-157.
21. Lucht, M. J., Barnow, S., Sonnen-feld, C., Rosenberger, A., Grabe, H. J., Schroeder, W., Völzke, H., Freyberger, H. J., Herrmann, F. H., Kroemer, H., and Rosskopf, D. (2009). Associations between the oxytocin receptor gene (OXTR) and affect, loneliness and intelligence in normal subjects. Prog. Neuropsy-chopharmacol. Biol. Psychiatry 33, 860-866.
22. Out, D., Pieper, S., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Zeskind, P. S., and van Ijzendoorn, M. H. (2010). Intended sensitive and harsh caregiving responses to infant crying: the role of cry pitch and perceived urgency in an adult twin sample. Child Abuse Negl. 34, 863-873.
23. Riem, M. M., Pieper, S., Out, D., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., and van Ijzendoorn, M. H. (2011a). Oxy-tocin receptor gene and depressive symptoms associatedwith physiological reactivity to infant crying. Soc. Cogn. Affect. Neurosci. 6, 294-300.
24. Riem, M. M. E., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Pieper, S., Tops, M., Boksem, M. A. S., Ver-meiren, R. R. J. M., van Ijzendoorn, M. H., and Rombouts, S. A. R. B. (2011b). Oxytocin modulates amygdala, insula and inferior frontal gyrus responses to infant crying: a randomized control trial. Biol. Psychiatry 70, 291-297.
25. Rodrigues, S. M., Saslow, L. R., Garcia, N., John, O. P., and Kelt-ner, D. (2009). Oxytocin receptor genetic variation relates to empathy and stress reactivity in humans. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 106, 21437-21441.
26. Sanderman, R., Arrindell, W. A., Ran-chor, A. V., Eysenck, H. J., and Eysenck, S. B. G. (1995). Manual to the Dutch Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. Groningen: Health Center, University of Groningen.
27. Saphire-Bernstein, S., Way, B. M., Kim, H. S., Sherman, D. K., and Taylor, S. E. (2011). Oxy-tocin receptor gene (OXTR) is related to psychological resources. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 108, 15118-15122.
28. Seltzer, L. J., Ziegler, T. E., and Pollak, S. D. (2010). Social vocalizations can release oxytocin in humans. Proc. Biol. Sci. 277, 2661-2666.
29. Tops, M. (2010). Oxytocin: envy or engagement in others? Biol. Psychiatry 67, e5-e6.
30. Tost, H., Kolachana, B., Hakimi, S., Lemaitre, H., Verchinski, B. A., Mattay, V. S., Weinberger, D. R., and Meyer-Lindenberg, A. (2010). A common allele in the oxy-tocin receptor gene (OXTR) impacts prosocial temperament and human hypothalamic-limbic structure and function. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107, 13936-13941.
31. Young, L. J., and Wang, Z. (2004). The neurobiology of pair bonding. Nat. Neurosci. 7, 1048-1054.