Intranasal Oxytocin Administration and the Neural Correlates of Social and Non-Social Visual Perception

Social Perception Clinical Trial

Official title: Oxytocin Pilot: Oxytocin and Face Perception

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of oxytocin on social behavior and brain activity using EEG and the event-related potential (ERP) technique. The value of EEG is its high temporal specificity, enabling precision in the timing of social behavior to be addressed. In order to elicit social responses in the human brain, a variety of social and emotional visual stimuli will be presented during EEG recording, namely infant and adult faces and houses. Brain responses after intranasal oxytocin will then be compared with placebo, to examine the effect of intranasal oxytocin on central nervous system activity. We hypothesize that intranasal oxytocin will enhance the neural response to social stimuli (infant and adult faces) but not to non-social stimuli (houses).

Clinical Trial Description

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Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Social Perception

• NCT number: NCT02238379
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Yale University
• Status: Completed
• Phase: Early Phase 1
• Start date: September 2014
• Completion date: December 2015