In nulliparous females, higher self-reported childhood emotional maltreatment was linked to lower accuracy on an infant-cue memory task after intranasal oxytocin.
In plain wordsIn young women without children, more childhood emotional maltreatment was linked to less accurate infant-cue memory after oxytocin nasal spray.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- DecreaseAccuracy on the Baby Social Reward Task by childhood emotional maltreatment
- Study
n = 102
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Outcome group
- Cognition and memory · Nervous system and cognition
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated · intranasalAs given in this study (human).
Source sentences
Participants reporting more childhood emotional maltreatment were less accurate in this task after inhaling oxytocin.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Nulliparous females (N = 102) participated in a randomized, double-blind, between-subjects study with intranasal oxytocin or placebo administration.