Building on animal research, the past decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the effects
of oxytocin on social cognition and prosocial behavior in humans. This work has generated …

Many sex and gender differences in schizophrenic psychoses have been reported, but few
have been soundly replicated. A stable finding is the later age of onset in women compared …

Prairie voles are among a small group of mammals that display long-term social attachment
between mating partners. Many pharmacological studies show that signaling via the …

Negative symptoms have long been conceptualized as a core aspect of schizophrenia. They
play a key role in the functional outcome of the disorder, and their management represents a …

Schizophrenia is a complex and multifactorial disorder generally diagnosed in young adults
at the time of the first psychotic episode of delusions and hallucinations. These positive …

There is growing interest in the role of the oxytocin system in social cognition and behavior.
Peripheral oxytocin concentrations are regularly used to approximate central concentrations …

Humans live in, rely on, and contribute to groups. Evolution may have biologically prepared
them to quickly identify others as belonging to the in-group (vs. not), to decode emotional …

The popularity of oxytocin (OT) has grown exponentially during the past decade, and so has
the number of OT trials in healthy and clinical groups. We take stock of the evidence from …

Among its many roles in body and brain, oxytocin influences social behavior. Understanding
the precise nature of this influence is crucial, both within the broader theoretical context of …

Humans are an unusually prosocial species, who engage in social behaviors that include
altruism—whereby an individual engages in costly or risky acts to improve the welfare of …