Oxytocin, social cognition and psychiatry
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Oxytocin has a role in regulating complex social behavior, including parental care, social bonding and social cognition in general.
“More recently, attention has turned to its role in regulating complex social behavior, including parental care, social bonding and social cognition in general (1–6).”
From Statistical and Methodological Considerations for the Interpretation of Intranasal Oxytocin Studies (2016) · cites this paper as [6]
The behavioral effects of OT are evolutionary conserved.
“we believe the behavioral effects of OT are indeed evolutionary conserved (6, 32)”
From Statistical and Methodological Considerations for the Interpretation of Intranasal Oxytocin Studies (2016) · cites this paper as [6]
OT receptors are concentrated in cholinergic brain regions regulating visual and auditory attention in nonhuman primates.
“OT receptors are concentrated in cholinergic brain regions regulating visual and auditory attention in nonhuman primates (6, 42, 43)”
From Statistical and Methodological Considerations for the Interpretation of Intranasal Oxytocin Studies (2016) · cites this paper as [6]
Oxytocin enhances social salience rather than social behaviour.
“oxytocin enhances social salience rather than social behaviour”
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For oxytocin administration to be therapeutic and influence behaviour, it must be paired with an appropriate social context.
“for oxytocin administration to be therapeutic and influence behaviour, it must be paired with an appropriate social context2–6”
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Effective clinical oxytocin intervention might require a second generation of therapeutics - compounds that cross the blood-brain barrier and either enhance endogenous oxytocin signalling or bind specifically to oxytocin receptors.
“Therefore, effective clinical oxytocin intervention might require a second generation of therapeutics — compounds that cross the blood–brain barrier and either enhance endogenous oxytocin signalling or bind specifically to oxytocin receptors3,4,6”
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OXT action results in modulation of neuronal activity in brain areas regulating social behaviors to increase the salience and reinforcing value of social stimuli.
“OXT action results in modulation of neuronal activity in brain areas regulating social behaviors 17 to increase the salience and reinforcing value of social stimuli 18,19.”
From Social experience alters oxytocinergic modulation in the nucleus accumbens of female prairie voles (2022) · cites this paper as [18]
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- Authors
- Young, L. J.
- Affiliations
- Emory University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Young, Larry J
- ORCID
- Young, Larry J
- Venue
- Neuropsychopharmacology
- Published
- 2014-12-08
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 243-244
- ISSN
- 0893-133X (ISSN-L)
- 1740-634X
- PMC
- PMC4262898
- OpenAlex
- W1970617251
- Cited by
- 64
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 5 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 10
- FWCI
- 11.87
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Neuropsychopharmacology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
- Alzheimer's Society
- National Institutes of Health (P51OD011132)
- U.S. Public Health Service (NIH ODP51OD11132)
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MOP74650)
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH096983, P50MH100023)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Sensory Systems › Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
- Keywords
- oxytocin, social cognition, parenting, social recognition, social reward, social bonding, maternal behavior, amygdala, striatum, hippocampus
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Cognition, Humans, Oxytocin, Polymorphism, Genetic, Psychiatry, Social Behavior, Receptors, Oxytocin
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