An interaction between oxytocin and a genetic variation of the oxytocin receptor modulates amygdala activity toward direct gaze: evidence from a pharmacological imaging genetics study.

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The neuropeptide oxytocin plays an important role in social cognition. One valuable tool to study social cognition in healthy and autistic humans in a neuroscientific context is the investigation of gaze toward another person. Of importance, it has been demonstrated that pronounced amygdala activation could be observed, when participants are confronted with direct gaze pictures in an fMRI setting, an effect that...

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