NCT02350946

Effects of Oxytocin on Emotion Recognition and Response Inhibition

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: RWTH Aachen University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to shed light on the basic neurobiological mechanisms which underlie social information processing in healthy men. More specifically, we intend to examine whether a person's social competence level is related to the patterns of neural activity and his visual search strategies during evaluation of social scenes. Furthermore, it will be assessed whether an oxytocin-driven increase in activity in brain areas relevant to the task will facilitate social information processing and thus enhance task performance. Additionally it will be examined whether oxytocin can facilitate response inhibition in an emotional context.

Conditions

• The Impact of Oxytocin on Social Cognition

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Oxytocin
DRUG	Placebo

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2017-01-01
• Completion: 2017-01-01
• First posted: 2015-01-30
• Last updated: 2015-01-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany