Oxytocin Nasal Spray

Oxytocin spray could be used to treat people with shyness, autism, and other social functioning deficits according to a new study.  Researchers from Israel and New York gave a group of 27 healthy men doses of oxytocin nasal spray and then asked them to peform ‘emphatic accuracy tests’.  Those men who were shy or who had [...]

A Belgian study into the effects of oxytocin appear to indicate that concerns over the potential for politicians and buisnesses to exploit the trusting properties of the hormone may be overstated.  The team, working from the Catholic University of Louvain, appear to have demonstrated that oxytocin increases trust without increasing outright gullibility.  In other words, [...]