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The role of central oxytocin in obsessive compulsive disorder and related normal behavior
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Oxytocin (OT) is a neurosecretory nonapeptide synthesized in hypothalamic cells, which project to widely distributed sites in the CNS as well as the neurohypophysis. Central OT affects a variety of cognitive, grooming, affiliative, sexual, and reproductive behaviors in animals. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) includes a range of cognitive and behavioral symptoms that bear some relationship to dimensions of behavior associated with OT. Anecdotal data and a recently completed cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) study provide evidence that some forms of OCD are related to OT dysfunction. Based on these findings, we hypothesize: 1) that some forms of OCD are at the extreme end of a range of normal behaviors that are mediated by OT and related systems; and that 2) some normal cognitive, affiliative, and sexual behaviors contain elements that are similar to features of OCD. Alternative hypotheses are considered, and a series of predictions are presented concerning the relationship between central OT and the onset, course, treatment response, and response to challenge procedures seen in this form of OCD.
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“In addition to the actual level of OT in the periphery, the distribution and density of central OT receptors may be another key factor in understanding the role of OT and related neuropeptides in affiliative behavior (70,71).”
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- Authors
- Leckman, J. F., Goodman, W. K., North, W. G., Chappell, P. B., Price, L. H., Pauls, D. L., Anderson, G. M., Riddle, M. A., McDougle, C. J., Barr, L. C., & Cohen, D. J.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- University of Florida Health (US)
- Dartmouth College (US)
- Connecticut Mental Health Center (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Leckman, James F.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Psychoneuroendocrinology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1994
- Volume
- 19
- Issue
- 8
- Pages
- 723-749
- ISSN
- 0306-4530 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2043814644
- Cited by
- 133
- References
- 211
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 4 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 5
- FWCI
- 1.22
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychoneuroendocrinology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01mh044843-03)
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH00508, MH49351, P01MH049351, MH 44843)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Keywords
- oxytocin, obsessive-compulsive disorder, affiliative behavior, grooming, sexual behavior, normal behavior, treatment response, hypothalamic neurosecretion
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Behavior, Animal, Brain, Brain Mapping, Humans, Hypothalamus, Neural Pathways, Neurophysins, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, Oxytocin, Stereotyped Behavior
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