Advances in the field of intranasal oxytocin research: lessons learned and future directions for clinical research

DS Quintana, A Lischke, S Grace, D Scheele… - Molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Reports on the modulatory role of the neuropeptide oxytocin on social cognition and
behavior have steadily increased over the last two decades, stimulating considerable …

When beliefs face reality: An integrative review of belief updating in mental health and illness

T Kube, L Rozenkrantz - Perspectives on Psychological …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Belief updating is a relatively nascent field of research that examines how people adjust
their beliefs in light of new evidence. So far, belief updating has been investigated in partly …

Evaluation of early ketamine effects on belief-updating biases in patients with treatment-resistant depression

H Bottemanne, O Morlaas, A Claret, T Sharot… - JAMA …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Clinical research has shown that persistent negative beliefs maintain depression
and that subanesthetic ketamine infusions induce rapid antidepressant responses. Objective …

[HTML][HTML] Nose-to-brain delivery of therapeutic peptides as nasal aerosols

W Alabsi, BB Eedara, D Encinas-Basurto, R Polt… - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Central nervous system (CNS) disorders, such as psychiatric disorders, neurodegeneration,
chronic pain, stroke, brain tumor, spinal cord injury, and many other CNS diseases, would …

Group cooperation, carrying-capacity stress, and intergroup conflict

CKW De Dreu, J Gross, A Fariña, Y Ma - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2020 - cell.com
Peaceful intergroup relations deteriorate when individuals engage in parochial cooperation
and parochial competition. To understand when and why intergroup relations change from …

[HTML][HTML] Optimistic update bias holds firm: Three tests of robustness following Shah et al.

N Garrett, T Sharot - Consciousness and cognition, 2017 - Elsevier
A diverse body of research has demonstrated that people update their beliefs to a greater
extent when receiving good news compared to bad news. Recently, a paper by Shah et al …

Oxytocin promotes coordinated out-group attack during intergroup conflict in humans

H Zhang, J Gross, C De Dreu, Y Ma - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Intergroup conflict contributes to human discrimination and violence, but persists because
individuals make costly contributions to their group's fighting capacity. Yet how group …

Oxytocin modulates social value representations in the amygdala

Y Liu, S Li, W Lin, W Li, X Yan, X Wang, X Pan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Humans exhibit considerable variation in how they value their own interest relative to the
interests of others. Deciphering the neural codes representing potential rewards for self and …

Nature, nurture, and their interplay: A review of cultural neuroscience

JY Sasaki, HS Kim - Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Cultural neuroscience research examines how psychological processes are affected by the
interplay between culture and biological factors, including genetic influences, patterns of …

Neural substrates underlying the effects of oxytocin: a quantitative meta-analysis of pharmaco-imaging studies

D Wang, X Yan, M Li, Y Ma - Social Cognitive and Affective …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The hypothalamic peptide oxytocin (OT) is crucial in social adaptation and used to treat
emotional and social deficits. Here, we conducted a systematic, quantitative meta-analysis of …