oxytocin

by **lavidaloca** » Mon Jun 29, 2015 10:07 am

some studies show that people who have experienced trauma in childhood as well as people with personality disorders have a significantly lower value of the hormone oxytocin. On web you find a lot of information about oxytocin, put in a nutshell oxytocin

plays an important role for women in childbirth
affects the behavior between mother and child
affects social interactions in general
affects bonding behavior
affects how much we trust others
affects sexual desire
...

These assumptions are based on experiments such as those performed by Michael Kosfeld at the University of Zurich. In North America were made several studies on the relationship between oxytocin and narcissistic personality disorder and Borderline disorder. Some hospitals already treat personality disorders with oxytocin.

Internet is full of studies & articles on this topic. I am not sure how is it with links and copy right in the forum, but maybe it would be helpful to collect some of those studies here. Of course the research is still in its infancy, like many fields in conventional medicine and you should never trust a study that you haven't falsified yourself...but based on the facts which are published so far, there is a clear link between deficiencies of oxytocin and personality disorders.

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