[Oxytocin and maltreatment potential : Influence of maternal depression, borderline personality disorder and experience of early childhood maltreatment].

CONCLUSION: In the present study alterations in plasma OXT concentrations were not associated with psychiatric disorders, such as a history of depression or borderline personality disorder but more with a potential etiological factor of these disorders, i.e. experience of maltreatment in their own childhood. PMID: 30725114 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: Der Nervenarzt - February 6, 2019 Category: Neurology Authors: Kluczniok D, Dittrich K, Hindi Attar C, Bödeker K, Roth M, Jaite C, Winter S, Herpertz SC, Röpke S, Heim C, Bermpohl F Tags: Nervenarzt Source Type: research