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To investigate whether and how intranasal oxytocin of 8IU treatment will alter the topology of functional brain network in resting-state and multiple tasks in healthy males.
In a randomized, double-blind, cross-over, placebo controlled design, healthy male volunteers receive intranasal oxytocin or placebo prior to functional magnetic resonance imaging.Subjects will then go through a decision making task, a emotion judgement task and an eight-minute resting-state scan in MRI scanner to investigate whether and how intranasal oxytocin alter the topology of functional brain network in resting-state and multiple tasks in healthy males. State anxiety and mood are measured before and after experiment as covariates to be controlled.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Oxytocin | Experimental | Oxytocin (OXT), a neuropeptide produced in the hypothalamus, is a key modulator of complex socioaffective responses including affiliation, social approach and attachment, stress and anxiety. Subjects receiving an intranasal spray of OXT (8 IU or 13.44 mg; Syntocinon-spray; Novartis, Switzerland) . |
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| Placebo | Placebo Comparator | Placebo contains all ingredients except for the peptide in three puffs of 1.33 IU per 2.24mg nostril. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Oxytocin | Drug | intranasally administrated |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Functional network organization alterations in brain under resting state fMRI after drug administration | Using seed-based and network level functional connectivity analysis, as well as graph theory analysis , functional network organization in brain under eight minutes resting state will be detected and compared between oxytocin and placebo group. | 70~85 minutes after drug administration |
| Behavior,brain activities and representation patterns in the emotional judgement task after drug administration | Friend or Foe Task is used to measure the verbal versus nonverbal emotional judgement of subjects. Both the response of subjects and the brain activity are recorded in the task. How oxytocin influences the relationship between subjects' behavior and representation pattern of emotional judgement will be investigated through RSA(representation similarity analysis) of brain pattern. | 60~75 minutes after drug administration |
| Behavior, dynamics brain activities and networks in the model-based decision making task after drug administration | Two-Stage Decision Making Task is used to measure the model-based and model-free decision making process of subjects. The degree of model-based will be calculated by Computational modelling of Subjects' decision making process, and entering as modulation parameter in the OT effect on dynamic brain seed-based and network-based connectivity pattern. | 35~60 minutes after drug administration |
| Relationship of functional network organization in brain across resting state and task-based fMRI after drug administration | The functional brain activity in resting state, emotional judgement and decision making task will be compared. Both the functional segregation and integration will be measured using graph theory and network connectivity analysis to discover the OT effect on brain network organization across multiple cognitive states. | 60~85 minutes after drug administration |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
we opted to recruit only males for the present study.
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Yina Ma, PhD | School of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Beijing Nornal University | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| School of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Beijing Nornal University | Beijing | Beijing Municipality | 100875 | China |
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| ID | Term |
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| D010121 | Oxytocin |
| D012965 | Sodium Chloride |
| ID | Term |
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| D010909 | Pituitary Hormones, Posterior |
| D010907 | Pituitary Hormones |
| D036361 | Peptide Hormones |
| D006728 | Hormones |
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The study utilized a randomized, double-blind, PBO controlled, within-subject design, in which each participant was tested under two acute treatment conditions separated by at least 1 wk wash-out period.
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| Drug |
intranasally administrated |
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| D006730 |
| Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists |
| D010455 | Peptides |
| D000602 | Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins |
| D002712 | Chlorides |
| D006851 | Hydrochloric Acid |
| D017606 | Chlorine Compounds |
| D007287 | Inorganic Chemicals |
| D017670 | Sodium Compounds |