Advances in the field of intranasal oxytocin research: lessons learned and future directions for clinical research

DS Quintana, A Lischke, S Grace, D Scheele… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Reports on the modulatory role of the neuropeptide oxytocin on social cognition and
behavior have steadily increased over the last two decades, stimulating considerable …

[HTML][HTML] Social brain, social dysfunction and social withdrawal

S Porcelli, N Van Der Wee, S van der Werff… - Neuroscience & …, 2019 - Elsevier
The human social brain is complex. Current knowledge fails to define the neurobiological
processes underlying social behaviour involving the (patho-) physiological mechanisms that …

Developmental programming of oxytocin through variation in early-life stress: Four meta-analyses and a theoretical reinterpretation

BJ Ellis, AJ Horn, CS Carter, MH van IJzendoorn… - Clinical Psychology …, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite evidence supporting a role for oxytocin (OT) in regulating social behavior,
surprisingly little is known about how this neuropeptide is calibrated during development …

The caring continuum: Evolved hormonal and proximal mechanisms explain prosocial and antisocial extremes

AA Marsh - Annual Review of Psychology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Implicit in the long-standing disagreements about whether humans' fundamental nature is
predominantly caring or callous is an assumption of uniformity. This article reviews evidence …

Group cooperation, carrying-capacity stress, and intergroup conflict

CKW De Dreu, J Gross, A Fariña, Y Ma - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Peaceful intergroup relations deteriorate when individuals engage in parochial cooperation
and parochial competition. To understand when and why intergroup relations change from …

Oxytocin and brain activity in humans: a systematic review and coordinate-based meta-analysis of functional MRI studies

SA Grace, SL Rossell, M Heinrichs… - …, 2018 - Elsevier
Oxytocin (OXT) is a neuropeptide which has a critical role in human social behaviour and
cognition. Research investigating the role of OXT on functional brain changes in humans …

[HTML][HTML] Links between the neurobiology of oxytocin and human musicality

AR Harvey - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The human species possesses two complementary, yet distinct, universal communication
systems—language and music. Functional imaging studies have revealed that some core …

Oxytocin modulates social value representations in the amygdala

Y Liu, S Li, W Lin, W Li, X Yan, X Wang, X Pan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Humans exhibit considerable variation in how they value their own interest relative to the
interests of others. Deciphering the neural codes representing potential rewards for self and …

Oxytocin promotes coordinated out-group attack during intergroup conflict in humans

H Zhang, J Gross, C De Dreu, Y Ma - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Intergroup conflict contributes to human discrimination and violence, but persists because
individuals make costly contributions to their group's fighting capacity. Yet how group …

Complementary neural circuits for divergent effects of oxytocin: social approach versus social anxiety

MQ Steinman, N Duque-Wilckens, BC Trainor - Biological psychiatry, 2019 - Elsevier
Oxytocin (OT) is widely known for promoting social interactions, but there is growing
appreciation that it can sometimes induce avoidance of social contexts. The social salience …