Patients with arginine vasopressin (AVP) deficiency (formerly central diabetes insipidus) often report social and emotional deficits and heightened anxiety. Growing evidence suggests that these symptoms may, at least partly, reflect concomitant OXT deficiency. OXT plays a key role in increasing empathy and improving emotion recognition. This analysis aimed to examine empathy and emotion...
3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), a psychoactive substance, has been proposed as a novel provocation test for oxytocin deficiency. Limited evidence suggests that MDMA may also stimulate the anterior pituitary. Therefore, this analysis aimed to investigate the acute effect of MDMA on the anterior pituitary in healthy adults. This secondary analysis utilized data from a double-blind,...