From a no-treatment baseline to an oxytocin treatment session, the oxytocin group had impaired word-list memory performance.
In plain wordsIn people, oxytocin treatment was associated with impaired word-list memory performance from the no-treatment baseline.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- DecreaseWord-list memory performance
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Outcome group
- Cognition and memory · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated
Source sentences
From a baseline session (no treatment) to a second session with treatment, the LVP and placebo groups showed an enhancement of the number of words remembered correctly, whereas the oxytocin group did not. Rather, oxytocin impaired memory performance.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
A classical task of experimental psychology, the retention of lists of words, was given twice to three groups of subjects treated with lysine vasopressin (LVP), oxytocin or saline.