Oxytocin and social learning in socially anxious men and women

CONCLUSION: These results suggest oxytocin-induced behavioral, physiological, and neural changes as a function of social learning in socially low and high anxious individuals. These findings challenge the amygdalocentric view of the role of emotions in social learning, instead contributing to the growing body of findings implicating the insula therein, revealing an interaction between oxytocin, sex, and emotional valence. Such discoveries raise an interesting set of questions regarding the computational goals of regions such as the insula in emotional learning and how neural activity can play a diagnostic or prognostic role in social anxiety, potentially leading to new treatment opportunities that may combine oxytocin and neurofeedback differentially for men and women.PMID:38537867 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuropharm.2024.109930
Source: Neuropharmacology - Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Source Type: research