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Trial reportScientific reports2023

Effects of exogenous oxytocin and estradiol on resting-state functional connectivity in women and men.

Marie Coenjaerts, Berina Adrovic, Isabelle Trimborn, Alexandra Philipsen, René Hurlemann, Dirk Scheele

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Oxytocin selectively biases sensory-prefrontal communication through network-level suppression and theta coupling.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Marie CoenjaertsResearch Section Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Bonn, 53105, Bonn, Germany. m.coenjaerts@mail.de.
Berina AdrovicResearch Section Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Bonn, 53105, Bonn, Germany.
Isabelle TrimbornResearch Section Medical Psychology, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Bonn, 53105, Bonn, Germany.
Alexandra PhilipsenDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Bonn, 53105, Bonn, Germany.
René HurlemannDepartment of Psychiatry, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Oldenburg, 26129, Oldenburg, Germany.
Dirk ScheeleDepartment of Social Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, 44780, Bochum, Germany. dirk-scheele@gmx.de.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Possible interactions of the neuropeptide oxytocin and the sex hormone estradiol may contribute to previously observed sex-specific effects of oxytocin on resting-state functional connectivity (rsFC) of the amygdala and hippocampus. Therefore, we used a placebo-controlled, randomized, parallel-group functional magnetic resonance imaging study design and measured amygdala and hippocampus rsFC in healthy men (n = 116) and free-cycling women (n = 111), who received estradiol gel (2 mg) or placebo before the intranasal administration of oxytocin (24 IU) or placebo. Our results reveal significant interaction effects of sex and treatments on rsFC of the amygdala and hippocampus in a seed-to-voxel analysis. In men, both oxytocin and estradiol significantly decreased rsFC between the left amygdala and the right and left lingual gyrus, the right calcarine fissure, and the right superior parietal gyrus compared to placebo, while the combined treatment produced a significant increase in rsFC. In women, the single treatments significantly increased the rsFC between the right hippocampus and the left anterior cingulate gyrus, whereas the combined treatment had the opposite effect. Collectively, our study indicates that exogenous oxytocin and estradiol have different region-specific effects on rsFC in women and men and that the combined treatment may produce antagonistic effects.

Indexed as

EstradiolOxytocinAmygdalaFemaleGyrus CinguliHippocampusHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleEstradiolOxytocin

Identifiers

PMID36813823
PMCPMC9947123

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