An oxytocin-induced facilitation of neural and emotional responses to social touch correlates inversely with autism traits

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2078-2085

  Scheele, Dirk ^a   Kendrick, Keith M ^b   Khouri, Christoph ^a   Kretzer, Elisa ^a   Schläpfer, Thomas E ^a,c   Stoffel Wagner, Birgit ^a   Güntürkün, Onur ^d   Maier, Wolfgang ^e   Hurlemann, René ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

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

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^e GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS;

ADULT; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR INSULA; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEUS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EMOTION; FACILITATION; FRONTAL GYRUS; HETEROSEXUAL MALE; HUMAN; INSULA; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NERVE POTENTIAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBITAL CORTEX; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRECUNEUS; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REWARD; SENSATION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SKIN STIMULATION; SOCIAL TOUCH; TOUCH; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DRUG EFFECTS; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMAN RELATION; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADULT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMOTIONS; HETEROSEXUALITY; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYTOCIN; REWARD; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 84904464077     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2014.78     Document Type: Article

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