An oxytocin-induced facilitation of neural and emotional responses to social touch correlates inversely with autism traits

Scheele, Dirk, Kendrick, Keith M, Khouri, Christoph, Kretzer, Elisa, Schläpfer, Thomas E, Stoffel-Wagner, Birgit, Güntürkün, Onur, Maier, Wolfgang +1 more·2014·Neuropsychopharmacology
DOI 10.1038/npp.2014.78

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