NCT04105140

Oxytocin Effects on the Prosocial Learning

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Electronic Science and Technology of China · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To investigate whether intranasal oxytocin (24 IU) treatment can influence prosocial learning behavior in males.

Detailed description

In a double-blind, within-subject, placebo controlled design, investigators plan to investigate the effect of oxytocin treatment on prosocial learning. Before the self-administration, participants need to finish several questionnaires including IRI, AAS, BASBIS, SPSRQ, SES, PTM, STAI, BDI, ASQ and PNAS. They would finish the PANAS again before the scanning. Participants are informed that they perform the reward learning task either for themselves, another (unknown) person or no one (control). In the probabilistc reward learning task, associations with two stimuli with different reward probabilities are learned via monetary feedback (reward ￥1 or no reward ￥0). After the experiment, participants need to finish the PANAS.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Oxytocin	intranasal administration of oxytocin (24 IU)
DRUG	Placebo	intranasal administration of placebo (24 IU)

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-01-01
• Primary completion: 2018-08-10
• Completion: 2018-08-10
• First posted: 2019-09-26
• Last updated: 2019-09-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China