Oral Oxytocin Blurs Sex Differences in Amygdala Responses to Emotional Scenes

• DOI: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2024.05.010
• Publication Date: 2024-06-07T17:37:43Z
• Authors: Chunmei Lan; Juan Kou; Qi Liu; Peng Qing; Xiaodong Zhang; Xinwei Song; Dan Xu; Yingying Zhang; Yuanshu Chen; Xinqi Zhou; Keith M. Kendrick; Weihua Zhao

Sex differences are shaped both by innate biological and the social environment frequently observed in human emotional neural responses. Oral administration of oxytocin (OXT), as an alternative noninvasive intake method, has been shown to produce sex-dependent effects on face processing. However, it is unclear whether oral OXT produces similar processing continuous scenes.