Effects of Intranasal Oxytocin on Emotion Regulation in Adolescents

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-05-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Male

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of intranasal administration of OT on behavior and discourse of insecure adolescents during a disagreement (stressful situation) with parents.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon
• Treatments: Oxytocin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Have a clinical diagnosis of insecure attachment according to the Attachment Scale Interview

• Male adolescents (and parents) enrolled in high school or college

• Not hospitalized

• Without current or past history of neurological or psychiatric illness, including substance abuse or dependence

• Aged from 13 to 20 years

• Speaking French

• Have signed informed consent

• Affiliation to a French social security

Exclusion Criteria:

• Females

• Intellectual deficit

• Severe neurological symptoms

• Known allergies to oxytocin or to preservatives in the nasal spray

• Not speaking French

• Visual disturbances

• Chronic disease (liver failure, kidney failure, cardiovascular disease)

• Antihypertensive therapy