NCT01939639

The Influence of Oxytocin on the Processing of Social Contact

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Bonn · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Social touch can convey the most potent and salient of socio-emotional signals. While the hypothalamic peptide oxytocin (OXT) has been identified as a key neurochemical mediator of grooming in some other social species, its modulatory influence on human interpersonal touch is unknown. The investigators expect that OXT augments the hedonic value of touch and that this behavioral effect is paralleled at the neural level by an increased response in brain areas mediating rewarding aspects of social touch.

Conditions

• Healthy Male Volunteers

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Placebo	intranasal application, sodium chloride solution, 3 puffs per nostril
DRUG	Oxytocin	24 IU Oxytocin, intranasal application 45 min prior to the experiment

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-03-01
• Primary completion: 2013-06-01
• Completion: 2013-08-01
• First posted: 2013-09-11
• Last updated: 2013-09-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany