Oxytocin improves facial emotion recognition in young adults with antisocial personality disorder

• Published in: Psychoneuroendocrinology Vol. 85; pp. 158 - 164
• Main Authors: Timmermann, Marion, Jeung, Haang, Schmitt, Ruth, Boll, Sabrina, Freitag, Christine M., Bertsch, Katja, Herpertz, Sabine C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2017
• Subjects: Adult; Anger - physiology; Antisocial personality disorder; Antisocial Personality Disorder - drug therapy; Antisocial Personality Disorder - physiopathology; Cross-Over Studies; Double-Blind Method; Emotion recognition; Facial Expression; Facial expressions; Facial Recognition - drug effects; Female; Happiness; Humans; Male; Oxytocin; Oxytocin - administration & dosage; Oxytocin - pharmacology; Social Perception; Violence inhibition mechanism model; Young Adult; Emotion recognition; Violence inhibition mechanism model; Oxytocin; Facial expressions; Antisocial personality disorder

•Antisocial individuals showed deficits in recognizing fearful and happy faces.•Oxytocin improved recognition of fearful and happy faces in antisocial individuals.•Following the violence inhibition mechanism model, oxytocin may reduce aggression.•Oxytocin might increase social reward responsiveness....