Oxytocin's Effect on Social Pain Empathy

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Drug: placebo treatment; Drug: oxytocin treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03122067

UESTC-neuSCAN-33

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the present experiment is to examine oxytocin's behavioral and neural effects on social pain empathy

Full description

In the current study, the investigators plan to examine whether oxytocin modulates behavior and neural activity during observing another person being excluded in an online ball-tossing game (a modified cyberball paradigm).

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy participants without past or current psychiatric or neurological disorders

Exclusion criteria

• history of head injury
• medical or psychiatric illness
• smoking or drinking 24 hours before experiment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

oxytocin group

Experimental group

Description:

male participants with oxytocin treatment

Treatment:

Drug: oxytocin treatment

placebo group

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

male participants with placebo treatment

Treatment:

Drug: placebo treatment