Oxytocin enhances brain reward system responses in men viewing the face of their female partner

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

Volumn 110, Issue 50, 2013, Pages 20308-20313

  Scheele, Dirk ^a   Wille, Andrea ^a   Kendrick, Keith M ^b   Stoffel Wagner, Birgit ^a   Becker, Benjamin ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^c   Maier, Wolfgang ^a,d   Hurlemann, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; Functional imaging; Love; Monogamy

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FACE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LOVE; MALE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PAIR BONDING; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICATION STUDY; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84890281214     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314190110     Document Type: Article

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