The effect of intranasal oxytocin versus placebo treatment on the autonomic responses to human sounds in autism: A single-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover design study

Molecular Autism

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lin, I Fan ^a   Kashino, Makio ^a,b   Ohta, Haruhisa ^c   Yamada, Takashi ^c   Tani, Masayuki ^c   Watanabe, Hiromi ^c   Kanai, Chieko ^c   Ohno, Taisei ^c   Takayama, Yuko ^c   Iwanami, Akira ^c   Kato, Nobumasa ^b,c  

^a NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c SHOWA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory; Autism; Autonomic system; Clinical trial; Oxytocin; Skin conductance response; Social cognition

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO; SEROTONIN NORADRENALIN REUPTAKE INHIBITOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGER SYNDROME; ATTENTION; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTISM; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BLOOD VESSEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG TOLERABILITY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERVASIVE DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER NOT OTHERWISE SPECIFIED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOUND; SOUND PRESSURE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VASOCONSTRICTION;

SUGARCANE RAMU STUNT DISEASE PHYTOPLASMA;

EID: 84897991188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20402392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2040-2392-5-20     Document Type: Article

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