Oxytocin and Socioemotional Aging─Current Knowledge and Future Trends

The oxytocin (OT) system is involved in various aspects of social cognition and prosocial behavior. Specifically, OT has been examined in the context of social memory, emotion recognition, cooperation, trust, empathy, and bonding, and─though evidence is somewhat mixed─intranasal OT appears to benefi...

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Main Authors: Natalie C. Ebner, Gabriela M. Maura, Kai eMacdonald, Lars eWestberg, Håkan eFischer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2013-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2013.00487/full