Intranasal oxytocin administration dampens amygdala reactivity towards emotional faces in male and female PTSD patients

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1495-1504

  Koch, Saskia B J ^a,b   Van Zuiden, Mirjam ^a   Nawijn, Laura ^a,b   Frijling, Jessie L ^a,b   Veltman, Dick J ^c   Olff, Miranda ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d ARQ PSYCHOTRAUMA EXPERT GROUP   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INVESTIGATIVE PROCEDURES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; AMYGDALA; BRAIN; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG EFFECTS; EMOTION; INTRANASAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRANASAL; ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; BRAIN; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYTOCIN; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 84963516517     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.299     Document Type: Article

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