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Effects of oxytocin administration on spirituality and emotional responses to meditation.

Social cognitive and affective neuroscience - 1 Oct 2016

Van Cappellen Patty, Way Baldwin M, Isgett Suzannah F, Fredrickson Barbara L

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The oxytocin (OT) system, critically involved in social bonding, may also impinge on spirituality, which is the belief in a meaningful life imbued with a sense of connection to a Higher Power and/or the world. Midlife male participants (N = 83) were randomly assigned to receive intranasal OT or placebo. In exploratory analyses, participants were also genotyped for polymorphisms in two genes critical for OT...

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PMID: 27317929
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsw078
PMCID: PMC5040919

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