Effects of Oxytocin on Emotion Recognition and Response Inhibition

Summary

The purpose of this study is to shed light on the basic neurobiological mechanisms which underlie social information processing in healthy men. More specifically, we intend to examine whether a person's social competence level is related to the patterns of neural activity and his visual search strategies during evaluation of social scenes. Furthermore, it will be assessed whether an oxytocin-driven increase in activity in brain areas relevant to the task will facilitate social information processing and thus enhance task performance. Additionally it will be examined whether oxytocin can facilitate response inhibition in an emotional context.

Timeline

Start

2015-01

Primary completion

2017-01

Completion

2017-01

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Indications

No indication recorded.