Oxytocin Infusion Reduces Repetitive Behaviors in Adults with Autistic and Asperger's Disorders

By E. Hollander, Sherie Novotny, Margaret A. Hanratty, R. Yaffe, C. Decaria, B. Aronowitz, S. Mosovich. Neuropsychopharmacology, 2003

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Pharmacy, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Early behavioral intervention, brain plasticity, and the prevention of autism spectrum disorder (2008, background): “Recent psychopharmacological studies have demonstrated that intravenous oxytocin administration reduces repetitive behavior (Hollander et al., 2003) and increases comprehension of affective meaning (Hollander et al., 2007) in individuals with ASD.”
• Oxytocin increases retention of social cognition in autism. (2007, methodology): “The biological challenge proceures were described in Hollander et al (2003).”
• Promoting social behavior with oxytocin in high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (2010, background): “Although previous studies have shown that oxytocin can reduce repetitive behavior in subjects with autism (28) and enhance the comprehension of affective speech (29), here we demonstrated that oxytocin can promote social approach and social comprehension in patients with autism.”
• Consensus Paper: Pathological Role of the Cerebellum in Autism (2012, background): “Improvements in repetitive behaviors in adults with autism following oxytocin infusion have been demonstrated [169] as well as positive effects on social behaviors and cognition [170].”
• Oxytocin, vasopressin, and human social behavior. (2009, background): “U N C O R R E C behavior in ASD [77] and improve emotion recognition in ASD [76].”
• The Challenge of Translation in Social Neuroscience: A Review of Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Affiliative Behavior (2010, background): “Three studies have examined the effects of OT administered intranasally to high-functioning autistic patients (Andari et al., 2010; Guastella et al., 2009a; Hollander et al., 2003, 2007).”
• Involvement of estrogen receptor α, β and oxytocin in social discrimination: a detailed behavioral analysis with knockout female mice (2006, background): “sion of OT ameliorated behavioral symptoms of autism (Hollander et al. 2003).”
• Oxytocin: the Great Facilitator of Life (2009, positive): “Intravenous infusion of Oxt into adults with autism and Asperger’s disorder significantly reduces both number and severity of repetitive behaviors (such as repeating, self-injury, touching; (Hollander et al., 2003), and increases ability to comprehend and remember the affective component of spoken w”