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Psychotropic properties of oxytocin

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    The neuropeptide oxytocin exerts a pronounced neurotropic effect.

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    The antidepressive effects of oxytocin revealed experimentally were confirmed in the treatment of the depressive syndrome in people.

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    The administration of oxytocin to treat persons with schizophrenia showed that it can be used to normalize the emotional status, to eliminate asthenic and apathetic states, as well as a psychic energizer.

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  1. Department of Normal Physiology, S. M. Kirov Military Medical Adacemy, Skvortsov-Stepanov Psychiatric Hospital No. 3, Leningrad

    V. D. Bakharev, S. M. Tikhomirov & T. K. Lozhkina

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Translated from Problemy Endokrinologii, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 37–41, March–April, 1984.

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Bakharev, V.D., Tikhomirov, S.M. & Lozhkina, T.K. Psychotropic properties of oxytocin. Neurosci Behav Physiol 16, 160–164 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01186517

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