Oxytocin and Social Behavior Over the Lifespan

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-12-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

This study will investigate if intranasal oxytocin (a hormone naturally produced in the body) promotes motivation for, and engagement in, social activities in older adults.

• Phase: Early Phase 1
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Claremont Graduate University
• Treatments: Oxytocin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• residentially housed

• English fluency

Exclusion Criteria:

• non ambulatory

• severe psychiatric problems presently or in the recent past

• severe medical problems (e.g., cancer, diabetes, advanced heart disease)

• irregular heart beat

• treatment using psychoactive medications (other than antiepileptics, mood stabilizers, or Ambien)

• inability to adequately communicate with the research team

• treatment with an experimental drug

• excessive fatigue suggesting hypothyroidism