Sniffing around oxytocin: Review and meta-analyses of trials in healthy and clinical groups with implications for pharmacotherapy

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-14

  Bakermans Kranenburg, M J ^a   Van IJzendoorn, M H ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; Childhood experiences; Meta analysis; Oxytocin treatment; Psychiatric disorder; Randomized controlled trial

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT;

AUTISM; BORDERLINE STATE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DRUG EFFECT; EFFECT SIZE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PSYCHOPHARMACOTHERAPY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL PHOBIA; ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; DEPRESSION; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MENTAL DISORDERS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TRUST;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; OXYTOCIN; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PHOBIC DISORDERS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TRUST;

EID: 84891698096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2013.34     Document Type: Review

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