Oxytocin facilitates protective responses to aversive social stimuli in males

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 44, 2012, Pages 18144-18149

  Striepens, Nadine ^a   Scheele, Dirk ^a   Kendrick, Keith M ^b   Becker, Benjamin ^a   Schäfer, Lea ^a   Schwalba, Knut ^a   Reul, Jürgen ^c   Maier, Wolfgang ^a,d   Hurlemann, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c Beta Clinic   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cognition; Emotion; Functional imaging; Psychophysiology

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR INSULA; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; MEMORY; MODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BRAIN; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYTOCIN; PLACEBOS;

EID: 84868089510     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1208852109     Document Type: Article

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