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Effects of intranasal oxytocin (24IU) on cognitive control of attention
The cognitive control of attention towards neutral and emotional stimuli represents a key functional domain and disruptions in this domain have been associated with a range of psychiatric disorders. Saccadic eye movement tasks have been used to assess individual differences in the cognitive control of attention and alterations in psychiatric disorders. Recent evidence suggests that the hypothalamic neuropeptide Oxytocin (OXT) may modulate attention allocation and regulation. To this end the present randomized between-subject placebo-controlled experiment examined whether intranasal OXT modulates behavior in an eye-tracking saccade / anti-saccade paradigm in healthy male subjects. The paradigm used non-social (neutral shape) as well as social (happy, sad, angry, fear, and neutral faces) stimuli to explore emotion-specific effects of OXT.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| oxytocin group | Experimental |
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| placebo group | Placebo Comparator |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| oxytocin treatment | Drug | intranasal administration of oxytocin (24IU) |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| emotion-specific saccade latencies | comparison between emotion-specific saccade latencies between the treatment groups (in milliseconds) | 45 minutes - 100 minutes after treatment |
| emotion-specific error rates | comparison between the emotion-specific ratio of unsuccessful anti-saccades between the treatment groups. | 45 minutes - 100 minutes after treatment |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China | Chengdu | Sichuan | 611731 | China |
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| placebo treatment |
| Drug |
intranasal administration of placebo |
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