Reading the mind in the infant eyes: Paradoxical effects of oxytocin on neural activity and emotion recognition in watching pictures of infant faces

Brain Research

Volumn 1580, Issue , 2014, Pages 151-159

  Voorthuis, Alexandra ^a   Riem, Madelon M E ^a   Van Ijzendoorn, Marinus H ^a   Bakermans Kranenburg, Marian J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

fMRI; Infant facial expressions; Inferior frontal gyrus; Middle temporal gyrus; Oxytocin; Superior temporal gyrus

Indexed keywords

ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO; OXYGEN; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; CONDITIONED EMOTIONAL RESPONSE TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG ACTIVATION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; INFANT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE POTENTIAL; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYTOCIN BLOOD LEVEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOGNITION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL GYRUS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION LEARNING TEST; VISUAL STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DRUG EFFECTS; FACE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; OXYTOCIN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907664167     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2013.10.051     Document Type: Article

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