Oxytocin Treatment, Circuitry, and Autism: A Critical Review of the Literature Placing Oxytocin into the Autism Context

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 234-242

  Guastella, Adam J ^a   Hickie, Ian B ^a  

^a University of Sydney   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biomarkers; Clinical trials; Developmental disorders; Hormones; Nasal spray; Personalized medicine

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ANTERIOR INSULA; AUTISM; AUTOMUTILATION; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; COMPULSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DRUG SAFETY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EYE; GAZE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LEARNING; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MEMORY; MIDDLE FRONTAL GYRUS; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; OXYTOCIN BLOOD LEVEL; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; REVIEW; REWARD; SIDE EFFECT; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL CIRCUITRY; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL RECOGNITION; STEREOTYPY; STUDY DESIGN; SUPERIOR TEMPORAL SULCUS; TEMPORAL LOBE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; AUTISTIC DISORDER; HUMAN RELATION; PSYCHOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; OXYTOCIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84955563865     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.06.028     Document Type: Review

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