Oxytocin Increases Heart Rate Variability in Humans at Rest: Implications for Social Approach-Related Motivation and Capacity for Social Engagement

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Kemp, Andrew H ^a,b   Quintana, Daniel S ^a   Kuhnert, Rebecca Lee ^a   Griffiths, Kristi ^a   Hickie, Ian B ^a   Guastella, Adam J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DROWSINESS; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEELING RELAXED; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOOD; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARESTHESIA; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REST; SIDE EFFECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT;

ADULT; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; OXYTOCIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84865505968     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044014     Document Type: Article

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