Title |
The beneficial effect of oxytocin on avoidance-related facial emotion recognition depends on early life stress experience
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Published in |
Psychopharmacology, May 2014
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DOI | 10.1007/s00213-014-3631-1 |
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Authors |
Melanie Feeser, Yan Fan, Anne Weigand, Adam Hahn, Matti Gärtner, Sabine Aust, Heinz Böker, Malek Bajbouj, Simone Grimm |
Abstract |
Previous studies have shown that oxytocin (OXT) enhances social cognitive processes. It has also been demonstrated that OXT does not uniformly facilitate social cognition. The effects of OXT administration strongly depend on the exposure to stressful experiences in early life. Emotional facial recognition is crucial for social cognition. However, no study has yet examined how the effects of OXT on the ability to identify emotional faces are altered by early life stress (ELS) experiences. Given the role of OXT in modulating social motivational processes, we specifically aimed to investigate its effects on the recognition of approach- and avoidance-related facial emotions. |
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