The Neural Basis of Oxytocin's Effects on Empathy

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2017-09-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The main focus of this study is to examine oxytocin effects on behavioral and neural indices of empathy processing.

• Phase: Early Phase 1
• 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 past or current psychiatric or neurological disorders

• no smoking at least 12 hours before experiment

• no alcohol, coffee or other stimulant drinking at least 12 hours before experiment

Exclusion Criteria:

• mental implants

• pregnancy

• uterine cavity operations

• use of medication

• acute physical disorder