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Article: Oral Administration of Oxytocin, like Intranasal Administration, Decreases Top-Down Social Attention
Title | Oral Administration of Oxytocin, like Intranasal Administration, Decreases Top-Down Social Attention |
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Keywords | antisaccade task face emotion Intranasal oxytocin oral oxytocin social attention |
Issue Date | 2022 |
Citation | International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022, v. 25, n. 11, p. 912-923 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Background: The neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) modulates social cognition by increasing attention to social cues and may have therapeutic potential for impaired social attention in conditions such as autism spectrum disorder. Intranasal administration of OXT is widely used to examine the drug’s functional effects in both adults and children and is assumed to enter the brain directly via this route. However, OXT can also influence brain function through increased blood concentrations, and we have recently shown that orally (lingual) administered OXT also modulates neural responses to emotional faces and may be better tolerated for therapeutic use. Here, we examine whether 24 IU OXT administered orally can facilitate social attention. Methods: In a randomized, placebo-controlled pharmacologic study, we used a validated emotional antisaccade eye-tracking paradigm to explore the effects of oral OXT on bottom-up and top-down attention processing in 80 healthy male participants. Results: Our findings showed that in terms of top-down attention, oral OXT increased errors for both social (angry, fearful, happy, sad, and neutral emotion faces) and nonsocial stimuli (oval shapes) in the antisaccade condition but increased response latencies only in the social condition. It also significantly reduced post-task state anxiety, but this reduction was not correlated with task performance. A comparison with our previous intranasal OXT study using the same task revealed that both routes have a similar effect on increasing antisaccade errors and response latencies and on reducing state anxiety. Conclusions: Overall, our findings suggest that oral administration of OXT produces similar effects on top-down social attention control and anxiety to intranasal administration and may therefore have therapeutic utility. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/330871 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 4.5 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.525 |
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dc.contributor.author | Zhuang, Qian | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zheng, Xiaoxiao | - |
dc.contributor.author | Yao, Shuxia | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhao, Weihua | - |
dc.contributor.author | Becker, Benjamin | - |
dc.contributor.author | Xu, Xiaolei | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kendrick, Keith M. | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-05T12:15:28Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-09-05T12:15:28Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2022, v. 25, n. 11, p. 912-923 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1461-1457 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/330871 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Background: The neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) modulates social cognition by increasing attention to social cues and may have therapeutic potential for impaired social attention in conditions such as autism spectrum disorder. Intranasal administration of OXT is widely used to examine the drug’s functional effects in both adults and children and is assumed to enter the brain directly via this route. However, OXT can also influence brain function through increased blood concentrations, and we have recently shown that orally (lingual) administered OXT also modulates neural responses to emotional faces and may be better tolerated for therapeutic use. Here, we examine whether 24 IU OXT administered orally can facilitate social attention. Methods: In a randomized, placebo-controlled pharmacologic study, we used a validated emotional antisaccade eye-tracking paradigm to explore the effects of oral OXT on bottom-up and top-down attention processing in 80 healthy male participants. Results: Our findings showed that in terms of top-down attention, oral OXT increased errors for both social (angry, fearful, happy, sad, and neutral emotion faces) and nonsocial stimuli (oval shapes) in the antisaccade condition but increased response latencies only in the social condition. It also significantly reduced post-task state anxiety, but this reduction was not correlated with task performance. A comparison with our previous intranasal OXT study using the same task revealed that both routes have a similar effect on increasing antisaccade errors and response latencies and on reducing state anxiety. Conclusions: Overall, our findings suggest that oral administration of OXT produces similar effects on top-down social attention control and anxiety to intranasal administration and may therefore have therapeutic utility. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology | - |
dc.subject | antisaccade task | - |
dc.subject | face emotion | - |
dc.subject | Intranasal oxytocin | - |
dc.subject | oral oxytocin | - |
dc.subject | social attention | - |
dc.title | Oral Administration of Oxytocin, like Intranasal Administration, Decreases Top-Down Social Attention | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/ijnp/pyac059 | - |
dc.identifier.pmid | 36053298 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85141369731 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 25 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 11 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 912 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 923 | - |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1469-5111 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000865773500001 | - |