Oxytocin promotes facial emotion recognition and amygdala reactivity in adults with asperger syndrome

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 698-706

  Domes, Gregor ^a,b   Kumbier, Ekkehardt ^c   Heinrichs, Markus ^a,b   Herpertz, Sabine C ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

autism; emotion recognition; face perception; fMRI; oxytocin; social cognition

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMOTION; GAZE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOGNITION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOCIAL COGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EMOTIONS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; OXYTOCIN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84892672488     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2013.254     Document Type: Article

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