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Oxytocin Effects on Self and Other Processing

U

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Status

Completed

Conditions

Social Behavior

Treatments

Drug: Oxytocin
Drug: Placebo

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02963194
UESTC-neuSCAN-05

Details and patient eligibility

About

To determine whether the neuropeptide oxytocin (OXT) influences self-processing by investigating whether it increases the endowment effect in relation to both self and others.

Full description

In a double-blind, between- subject placebo (PLC) controlled design, investigator aimed to measure the effect of intranasal OXT on the endowment effect. All subjects completed a range of questionnaires measuring personality and affective traits and levels of anxiety before self-administration: Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) , State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) , Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), self-esteem scale (SES). Subjects were asked to decide whether to buy or sell their own or others' (their mothers'/ fathers'/ classmate'/ strangers') possessions at various prices. Indifference point and brain activation were inluded into analysis as dependent variables.

Enrollment

44 patients

Sex

Male

Ages

18 to 27 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • healthy subjects without past or current psychiatric or neurological disorders

Exclusion criteria

  • history of head injury;
  • claustrophobia;
  • medical or psychiatric illness.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Basic Science

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Double Blind

44 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Oxytocin
Experimental group
Description:
Oxytoxin nasal spray
Treatment:
Drug: Oxytocin
Placebo
Placebo Comparator group
Description:
Placebo nasal spray
Treatment:
Drug: Placebo

Trial contacts and locations

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