Integrative approaches utilizing oxytocin to enhance prosocial behavior: From animal and human social behavior to autistic social dysfunction

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 41, 2012, Pages 14109-14117

  Yamasue, Hidenori ^a,b   Yee, Jason R ^c   Hurlemann, René ^d   Rilling, James K ^e   Chen, Frances S ^f   Meyer Lindenberg, Andreas ^g   Tost, Heike ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BRAIN STEM; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEARNING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS;

ANIMALS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; HUMANS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; OXYTOCIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84867247511     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3327-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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