Oxytocin attenuates neural response to emotional faces in social drinkers: an fMRI study.

CONCLUSION: For the first time, we could show that a larger oxytocin-induced attenuation of amygdala response to fearful faces is associated with lower subjective craving for alcohol and percentage of heavy drinking days in social drinkers. Modulation of amygdala activation, induced by emotional stimuli, might represent a neurobiological substrate of oxytocin's protective effects on drug seeking behavior. PMID: 32076819 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience - February 22, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci Source Type: research