Science confirms social fears and hormonal deficiencies relevant

Keywords: social fear hormone deficiency

[] Hearing: Sweden Carolyn Institute recently published Bulletin pointed out that Sweden and the United Kingdom scientists find a novel called the hormone oxytocin, which can inhibit some interaction with others during anxiety.

Social phobia is a mental illness, often occur among young people. Patients on the party or other social occasion fear, because such occasions so that they feel nervous, unsafe and uncomfortable.

Caroline Academy and London Wellcome Foundation functional imaging laboratory in cooperation with the research results would contribute to enhancing social phobia and other mental diseases treatment effects.

The researchers noted that oxytocin can push people willing to participate in social activities. The human body in childbirth and breastfeeding, and so will a lot oxytocin secretion, it can produce pain or stabilization. Studies have shown that oxytocin on brain have a direct impact on the tonsil, brain tonsil is the effect of social interaction within the human brain and the emotional perception of threats to the critical region, is responsible for processing and storage of emotional response.

In order to verify that oxytocin on emotional impact, scientists to participate in pilot volunteers demonstrated by 4 different faces is composed of a series of images that show the two single image, let volunteers feel will produce discomfort of weak electric shocks. Scientists have discovered, and the other two images compared to volunteer more disgusted and electrical shock while the image appears.

In the second stage of the test, the researchers to half of the volunteers use contain oxytocin spray, the other half of the volunteers are using a placebo. Test results show that using a spray of volunteers are no longer excluded before the disgusting image of two tickets, and other volunteers feel has not changed.

Functional magnetic resonance image also shows that the first two image caused by anxiety so that the brain of the two regions, namely the hyperactive brain tonsil and Visual information of fusiform face facial area. After using the spray, the two areas of activity, the use of placebo volunteers did not change.

Participation in the Research Institute of Neurology of Carolyn expert · Predrag Petrovic, this comparison illustrates the oxytocin can reduce anxiety and increase the chances of social communication, shows that oxytocin the importance of the relationship, as some of the mental illness of replacement therapy provides a new choice.