Oxytocin Influences Social Behavior and Emotional Response

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Oxytocin Influences Social Behavior and Emotional Response

"Key Facts:

Social Fear Mechanisms: Oxytocin plays a key role in reducing social fear and anxiety.

Therapeutic Advances: Promising target for treating social anxiety, autism, and depression.

Stress Resilience: Early life stress and chronic anxiety are closely tied to oxytocin pathways.

Source: Genomic Press" 

"We started to focus on the potential role of the brain’s oxytocin and AVP systems as therapeutic targets for psychiatric diseases such as depression and anxiety disorders or autism,” Professor Neumann notes, highlighting the clinical implications of her research.

“The hope is that one day it will be possible to apply oxytocin reliably to treat – for example – treatment-resistant patients suffering from anxiety disorders, especially social anxiety, but also autism and schizophrenia.”

I believe it, whenever I get oxytocin from natural sources I feel much better, even from various sources.