Oxytocin increases anxiety to unpredictable threat

Assessing fear and anxiety in humans using the threat of predictable and unpredictable aversive events (the NPU-threat test)

(2012) Anja Schmitz et al.   Nature Protocols

Evoked Axonal Oxytocin Release in the Central Amygdala Attenuates Fear Response

(2012) H. Sophie Knobloch et al.   NEURON

Oxytocin and vasopressin in the human brain: social neuropeptides for translational medicine

(2011) Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Neuroanatomical evidence for reciprocal regulation of the corticotrophin-releasing factor and oxytocin systems in the hypothalamus and the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis of the rat: Implications for balancing stress and affect

(2011) Joanna Dabrowska et al.   PSYCHONEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Oxytocin Selectively Gates Fear Responses Through Distinct Outputs from the Central Amygdala

(2011) D. Viviani et al.   SCIENCE

Oxytocin and cooperation under conditions of uncertainty: The modulating role of incentives and social information

(2010) Carolyn H. Declerck et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Oxytocin Reduces Background Anxiety in a Fear-Potentiated Startle Paradigm

(2010) Galen Missig et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

The Neuropeptide Oxytocin Regulates Parochial Altruism in Intergroup Conflict Among Humans

(2010) C. K. W. De Dreu et al.   SCIENCE

Phasic vs Sustained Fear in Rats and Humans: Role of the Extended Amygdala in Fear vs Anxiety

(2009) Michael Davis et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY