Published January 1, 2015 | Version v1
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The Associations Between Endogenous Oxytocin Levels and Emotion Recognition in Bipolar Disorder

  • 1. Celal Bayar Univ, Sch Med, Dept Med Biochem, Manisa, Turkey
  • 2. Celal Bayar Univ, Sch Med, Dept Psychiat, Manisa, Turkey

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Objective: Recent studies in patients with Bipolar Disorder (BD) have revealed problems in emotion recognition, specifically for negative emotions, which have been subsequently related to amygdala activity. Previously, the prosocial neuropeptide oxytocin has been shown to be one hormone that alters emotion perception capacities and modulates amygdala response. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to see if plasma oxytocin levels have specific effects on predicting emotion recognition patterns in BD.

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