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Oxytocin Modulates Amygdala, Insula, and Inferior Frontal Gyrus Responses to Infant Crying: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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Background Oxytocin facilitates parental caregiving and mother-infant bonding and might be involved in responses to infant crying. Infant crying provides information about the physical status and mood of the infant and elicits parental proximity and caregiving. Oxytocin might modulate the activation of brain structures involved in the perception of cry sounds-specifically the insula, the amygdala, and the thalamocingulate circuit-and thereby affect responsiveness to infant crying.Method In a randomized controlled trial we investigated the influence of intranasally administered oxytocin on neural responses to infant crying with functional magnetic resonance imaging. Blood oxygenation level-dependent responses to infant crying were measured in 21 women who were administered oxytocin and 21 women who were administered a placebo.Results Induced oxytocin levels reduced, experimentally, activation in the amygdala and increased activation in the insula and inferior frontal gyrus pars triangularis.Conclusions Our findings suggest that oxytocin promotes responsiveness to infant crying by reducing activation in the neural circuitry for anxiety and aversion and increasing activation in regions involved in empathy.
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“OXT altered neural responses to infant crying (Riem et al., 2011)”
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“there are also studies in which OXT has produced social effects in women using HC.”
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“increase empathy circuit activity in parents responding to baby cry (42).”
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“intranasal oxytocin seems to both decrease anxiety”
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“Thus, while increased activation of the amygdala to infant stimuli is interpreted as a more negative response to infants among typical adults (Riem et al., 2011), in mothers, it can be associated with more positive responses to one’s own infant (Barrett et al., 2012).”
From The maternal brain and its plasticity in humans (2016) · cites this paper as Riem et al., 2011
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“In fact, in these studies, administration of OT was associated with increased activations in areas related to regulation of emotion and empathy, including the ACC, the OFC, and insula (Riem et al., 2011; Riem et al., 2013).”
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“Among non-parent women, administration of OT was associated with reduced responses in the amygdala to negative emotional images that were stressful (Rupp et al., 2012), as well as stimuli that depict infants either crying (Riem et al., 2011) or laughing (Riem et al., 2013).”
From The maternal brain and its plasticity in humans (2016) · cites this paper as Riem et al., 2011
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“This amygdala activation is significantly attenuated following treatment by intranasal oxytocin and is suggested to reflect the stress-reducing effects of oxytocin that may help promote responsiveness to crying infants (Riem et al., 2011).”
From Oxytocin, motivation and the role of dopamine (2014) · cites this paper as Riem et al., 2011
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“Other lines of research indicate mothers hearing crying sounds from an infant exhibit enhanced BOLD activation within the temporal lobe and amygdala (Riem et al., 2011).”
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“Some studies showed that oxytocin increases activation in brain regions important for emotional processing, including the insula and inferior frontal gryus during the perception of social stimuli (Riem et al., 2011).”
From Oxytocin effects on complex brain networks are moderated by experiences of maternal love withdrawal (2013) · cites this paper as Riem et al., 2011
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“Oxytocin decreases amygdala activation during the perception of fear-inducing or aversive social stimuli; it has been suggested that this explains the stress-reducing effects of oxytocin (Gamer et al., 2010;Riem et al., 2011).”
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“Because projections between the amygdala and brainstem are involved in fear behavior and arousal (LeDoux, 2000) it has been suggested that decreased amygdala activation might be the underlying neural mechanism of the anxiolytic effects of oxytocin (Gamer et al., 2010;Riem et al., 2011).”
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- Riem, M. M. E., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Pieper, S., Tops, M., Boksem, M. A. S., Vermeiren, R. R. J. M., van IJzendoorn, M. H., & Rombouts, S. A. R. B.
- Affiliations
- Leiden University (NL)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- Leiden University Medical Center (NL)
- Venue
- Biological Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2011-08
- Volume
- 70
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 291-297
- ISSN
- 0006-3223 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2163954344
- Cited by
- 366
- References
- 90
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- FWCI
- 52.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Funders
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Infant Health and Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Keywords
- oxytocin, infant crying, amygdala, insula, inferior frontal gyrus, maternal responsiveness, mother-infant bonding, parental care, empathy, anxiety, aversion
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Amygdala, Auditory Perception, Cerebral Cortex, Crying, Empathy, Female, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Middle Aged, Neurons, Oxytocin
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