Oxytocin selectively modulates brain response to stimuli probing social synchrony

NeuroImage

Volumn 124, Issue , 2016, Pages 923-930

  Levy, Jonathan ^a   Goldstein, Abraham ^a   Zagoory Sharon, Orna ^a   Weisman, Omri ^a   Schneiderman, Inna ^a   Eidelman Rothman, Moranne ^a   Feldman, Ruth ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Alpha rhythm; MEG; Mirror neuron network; Oxytocin; Social brain; Social synchrony

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO;

ACTION OBSERVATION; ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; INFERIOR PARIETAL LOBULE; LIFE THREAT; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTALIZING; MIRROR NEURON NETWORK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PERCEPTION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL SYNCHRONY; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; VETERAN; WAR; YOUNG ADULT; AROUSAL; BRAIN; CHEMICAL STIMULATION; DRUG EFFECTS; MIRROR NEURON; PARIETAL LOBE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THEORY OF MIND; WARFARE;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; AROUSAL; BRAIN; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; MIRROR NEURONS; NERVE NET; OXYTOCIN; PARIETAL LOBE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULATION, CHEMICAL; THEORY OF MIND; VETERANS; WARFARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84945218096     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2015.09.066     Document Type: Article

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