ReviewFrontiers in behavioral neuroscience2014
Endogenous peripheral oxytocin measures can give insight into the dynamics of social relationships: a review.
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- Limited nesting stress in mice as a model to study neuroimmune relationships in postpartum depression.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2026Article
- Allied male dolphins use synchronous displays to strengthen social bonds in a cooperative context.Movement ecology · 2025Article
- The Role of Oxytocin and Sex in Analgesic Placebo-Response: Exploratory Analysis from a Sham Randomized Clinical Trial in Chronic Back-Pain Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Tracking Epidermal Cortisol and Oxytocin in Managed Bottlenose Dolphins as Potential Non-Invasive Physiological Welfare Indicators.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Comparing the biopsychosocial impact of group singing and yoga activities in older adults living with Parkinson's disease.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Oxytocin activity is not linked to out-group prosociality in wild bonobos.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Charting Salivary Oxytocin Across an Episode of Naturally Occurring Partnered Sex.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- How does oxytocin modulate human behavior?Molecular psychiatry · 2025Review
- Mechanisms of social behaviour in the anti-social blind cavefish (Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- An Extension to the stress-buffering model: Timing of support across the lifecourse.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Article
- Neurophysin I is an analytically robust surrogate biomarker for oxytocin.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Article
- Oxytocin measurements in saliva: an analytical perspective.BMC veterinary research · 2023Review
- Association between serum oxytocin levels and depressive state in community-dwelling older adults: A cross-sectional study.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2023Article
- Advances in human oxytocin measurement: challenges and proposed solutions.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Review
- The evolved nest, oxytocin functioning, and prosocial development.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Thermal imaging reveals social monitoring during social feeding in wild chimpanzees.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
The neuropeptide, oxytocin, receives increasing attention due to its role in stress regulation and promoting affiliative social behavior. Research across mammals points to a complex pattern whereby social context and individual differences moderate the central release of oxytocin as well as moderate the effects that exogenous administration of oxytocin has on social behavior. In addition, it is becoming evident that measuring endogenous peripheral oxytocin levels is an informative tool. This is particularly so when oxytocin can be measured from non-invasively collected samples, such as in urine. Although it is still debated as to whether peripheral measures of oxytocin relate to central measures of oxytocin, anatomical and functional evidence indicate a link between the two. We argue that non-invasive measures of peripheral oxytocin hold several research and potential therapeutic advantages. Principally, study subjects can be sampled repeatedly in different social contexts where social history between interaction partners can be taken into account. Several hormones can be measured simultaneously allowing examination of the influence of oxytocin interactions with other hormones on motivational states. Valence of relationships as well as changes in relationship quality over time can be measured through endocrine responses. Also, the approach of identifying natural social contexts that are associated with endogenous oxytocin release offers the potential of behavioral therapy as an addition or alternative to chemical therapy in the field of mental health.
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