Effects of oxytocin administration on spirituality and emotional responses to meditation
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience June 17, 2016 Patty van Cappellen, Baldwin M. Way, Suzannah F. Isgett et al. 138 citations
The oxytocin (OT) system, critically involved in social bonding, may also impinge on spirituality, which is the belief in a meaningful life imbued with a sense of connection to a Higher Power and/or the world. Midlife male participants (N = 83) were randomly assigned to receive intranasal OT or placebo. In exploratory analyses, participants were also genotyped for polymorphisms in two genes...