Oxytocin pathway genes: evolutionary ancient system impacting on human affiliation, sociality, and psychopathology

R Feldman, M Monakhov, M Pratt, RP Ebstein - Biological psychiatry, 2016 - Elsevier
Oxytocin (OT), a nonapeptide signaling molecule originating from an ancestral peptide,
appears in different variants across all vertebrate and several invertebrate species …

Explicating the role of empathic processes in substance use disorders: A conceptual framework and research agenda

SH Massey, RL Newmark… - Drug and alcohol …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Issues. Elucidating the role of empathic processes in developmental pathways to substance
use disorders could have important implications for prevention. Approach. We searched the …

Smoking and quit attempts during pregnancy and postpartum: a longitudinal UK cohort

S Cooper, S Orton, J Leonardi-Bee, E Brotherton… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Pregnancy motivates women to try stop** smoking, but little is known about
timing of their quit attempts and how quitting intentions change during pregnancy and …

Impaired empathy processing in individuals with internet addiction disorder: An event-related potential study

C Jiao, T Wang, X Peng, F Cui - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is associated with deficits in social communication and
avoidance of social contact. It has been hypothesized that people with IAD may have an …

Separating family-level and direct exposure effects of smoking during pregnancy on offspring externalizing symptoms: bridging the behavior genetic and behavior …

R Estabrook, SH Massey, CAC Clark, JL Burns… - Behavior genetics, 2016 - Springer
Maternal smoking during pregnancy (MSDP) has been robustly associated with
externalizing problems and their developmental precursors in offspring in studies using …

Congenital prosopagnosia is associated with a genetic variation in the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene: An exploratory study

Z Cattaneo, R Daini, M Malaspina, F Manai, M Lillo… - Neuroscience, 2016 - Elsevier
Face-recognition deficits, referred to with the term prosopagnosia (ie, face blindness), may
manifest during development in the absence of any brain injury (from here the term …

Are empathic processes mechanisms of pregnancy's protective effect on smoking? Identification of a novel target for preventive intervention

SH Massey, R Estabrook, L Lap**-Carr… - Social Science & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Spontaneous cessation and reduction in smoking by pregnant women suggest
that concern about others, or empathy, could be a malleable target for intervention. We …

Thinking and doing: the effects of dopamine and oxytocin genes and executive function on mothering behaviours

K Tombeau Cost, E Unternaehrer… - Genes, Brain and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Animal and human studies suggest that initial expression of maternal behaviour depends on
oxytocin and dopamine systems. However, the mechanism by which these systems affect …

Oxytocin modulates the cognitive appraisal of the own and others close intimate relationships

C Aguilar-Raab, M Eckstein, S Geracitano… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Close and intimate relationships are important promoters of health. Oxytocin and its
association with social cognition have been investigated in a large number of studies …

Specification of change mechanisms in pregnant smokers for malleable target identification: a novel approach to a tenacious public health problem

SH Massey, J Decety, KL Wisner… - Frontiers in Public …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Maternal smoking during pregnancy (MSDP) continues to be a leading modifiable risk factor
for perinatal complications and a range of neurodevelopmental and cardio-metabolic …