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Oxytocin Enhances Amygdala-Dependent, Socially Reinforced Learning and Emotional Empathy in Humans

René Hurlemann, Alexandra Patin, Oezguer A. Onur, Michael X. Cohen, Tobias Baumgartner, Sarah Metzler, Isabel Dziobek, Juergen Gallinat, Michael Wagner, Wolfgang Maier and Keith M. Kendrick
Journal of Neuroscience 7 April 2010, 30 (14) 4999-5007; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5538-09.2010
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5538-09.2010
PubMed 
20371820
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History 
  • Received November 9, 2009
  • Revision received January 26, 2010
  • Accepted February 17, 2010
  • First published April 6, 2010.
  • Version of record published April 6, 2010.
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Copyright © 2010 the authors 0270-6474/10/304999-09$15.00/0 This article is freely available online through the J Neurosci Open Choice option.

Author Information

  1. René Hurlemann1,*,
  2. Alexandra Patin1,*,
  3. Oezguer A. Onur1,
  4. Michael X. Cohen2,
  5. Tobias Baumgartner1,
  6. Sarah Metzler1,
  7. Isabel Dziobek3,
  8. Juergen Gallinat4,
  9. Michael Wagner1,
  10. Wolfgang Maier1, and
  11. Keith M. Kendrick5
  1. 1Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, 53105 Bonn, Germany,
  2. 2Department of Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721,
  3. 3Department of Educational Science and Psychology, University of Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany,
  4. 4Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Charité University Medicine Berlin, 10117 Berlin, Germany, and
  5. 5Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, The Babraham Institute, Babraham, Cambridge CB22 3AT, United Kingdom
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to either of the following: René Hurlemann, Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, 53105 Bonn, Germany, renehurlemann{at}me.com; or Keith M. Kendrick, Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, The Babraham Institute, Babraham, Cambridge CB22 3AT, UK, E-mail: keith.kendrick{at}bbsrc.ac.uk
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Author contributions

  1. ↵*R.H. and A.P. contributed equally to this article. A.P.'s contribution was used toward her thesis for the International Master in Affective Neuroscience. We thank D. Talmi for superb methodological advice, I. Frommann and D. Patin for excellent technical assistance, and A. Edele and C. Montag for generously providing the Multifaceted Empathy Test.

Disclosures

    • Received November 9, 2009.
    • Revision received January 26, 2010.
    • Accepted February 17, 2010.
  • R.H. was supported by a German Research Foundation Grant (HU1302/2-2) and by a Starting Independent Researcher Grant jointly provided by the Ministry of Innovation, Science, Research, and Technology of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and the University of Bonn. K.M.K. was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • Correspondence should be addressed to either of the following: René Hurlemann, Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, 53105 Bonn, Germany, renehurlemann{at}me.com; or Keith M. Kendrick, Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, The Babraham Institute, Babraham, Cambridge CB22 3AT, UK, E-mail: keith.kendrick{at}bbsrc.ac.uk

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