Is oxytocin being studied to reduce impulsivity and aggression in intellectual disability disorder ?

06 November 2018 1 3K Report

Oxytocin is being found to improve prosocial behaviour in autism. It also seems to help reduce anxiety in social anxiety. It likely improves the neuroplasticty in the orbitofrontal area , in which case it is possible that it can be tried to reduce aggression in violent patients, specially with Intellectual disability. Is there any research in this area?

S. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631637/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28864975

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