The Effects of Oxytocin on Affective Touch

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2018-07-12
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Male

Summary

The main aim of the study is to investigate whether intranasal oxytocin (24IU) increases the affective processing of touch in general or whether it's effect vary according to the affective valence of the touch (positive, neutral, negative). Moreover, associations with trait autism will be explored.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
• Treatments: Oxytocin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthy subjects without any past or present psychiatric or neurological disorders

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of brain injury Medical or mental illness