Oxytocin Modulates Meta-Mood as a Function of Age and Sex
Attending to and understanding one’s own feelings are components of meta-mood and constitute important socio-affective skills across the entire lifespan. Growing evidence suggests a neuromodulatory role of the neuropeptide oxytocin on various socio-affective processes. Going beyond previous work tha...
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| author | Natalie eEbner Natalie eEbner Marilyn eHorta Tian eLin Håkan eFischer Ronald eCohen David eFeifel |
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| description | Attending to and understanding one’s own feelings are components of meta-mood and constitute important socio-affective skills across the entire lifespan. Growing evidence suggests a neuromodulatory role of the neuropeptide oxytocin on various socio-affective processes. Going beyond previous work that almost exclusively examined young men and perceptions of emotions in others, the current study investigated effects of intranasal oxytocin on meta-mood in young and older men and women. In a double-blind between-group design, participants were randomly assigned to self-administer either intranasal oxytocin or a placebo before responding to items from the Trait Meta-Mood Scale about attention to feelings and clarity of feelings. In contrast to older women, oxytocin relative to placebo increased attention to feelings in older men. Oxytocin relative to placebo enhanced meta-mood in young female participants but reduced it in older female participants. This pattern of findings supports an age- and sex-differential modulatory function of the neuropeptide oxytocin on meta-mood, possibly associated with neurobiological differences with age and sex. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f60c80eae6654586a20db64deb0baf3f2022-12-22T02:28:22ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience1663-43652015-09-01710.3389/fnagi.2015.00175158342Oxytocin Modulates Meta-Mood as a Function of Age and SexNatalie eEbner0Natalie eEbner1Marilyn eHorta2Tian eLin3Håkan eFischer4Ronald eCohen5David eFeifel6University of FloridaUniversity of FloridaUniversity of FloridaUniversity of FloridaStockholm UniversityUniversity of FloridaUniversity of California, San DiegoAttending to and understanding one’s own feelings are components of meta-mood and constitute important socio-affective skills across the entire lifespan. Growing evidence suggests a neuromodulatory role of the neuropeptide oxytocin on various socio-affective processes. Going beyond previous work that almost exclusively examined young men and perceptions of emotions in others, the current study investigated effects of intranasal oxytocin on meta-mood in young and older men and women. In a double-blind between-group design, participants were randomly assigned to self-administer either intranasal oxytocin or a placebo before responding to items from the Trait Meta-Mood Scale about attention to feelings and clarity of feelings. In contrast to older women, oxytocin relative to placebo increased attention to feelings in older men. Oxytocin relative to placebo enhanced meta-mood in young female participants but reduced it in older female participants. This pattern of findings supports an age- and sex-differential modulatory function of the neuropeptide oxytocin on meta-mood, possibly associated with neurobiological differences with age and sex.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnagi.2015.00175/fullAgingOxytocinemotionSexMeta-mood |
| spellingShingle | Natalie eEbner Natalie eEbner Marilyn eHorta Tian eLin Håkan eFischer Ronald eCohen David eFeifel Oxytocin Modulates Meta-Mood as a Function of Age and Sex Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience Aging Oxytocin emotion Sex Meta-mood |
| title | Oxytocin Modulates Meta-Mood as a Function of Age and Sex |
| title_full | Oxytocin Modulates Meta-Mood as a Function of Age and Sex |
| title_fullStr | Oxytocin Modulates Meta-Mood as a Function of Age and Sex |
| title_full_unstemmed | Oxytocin Modulates Meta-Mood as a Function of Age and Sex |
| title_short | Oxytocin Modulates Meta-Mood as a Function of Age and Sex |
| title_sort | oxytocin modulates meta mood as a function of age and sex |
| topic | Aging Oxytocin emotion Sex Meta-mood |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnagi.2015.00175/full |
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