Posted on 08/01/2011 2:10:49 PM PDT by decimon
For a hormone, oxytocin is pretty famous. It’s the “cuddle chemical”—the hormone that helps mothers bond with their babies. Salespeople can buy oxytocin spray on the internet, to make their clients trust them. It’s known for promoting positive feelings, but more recent research has found that oxytocin can promote negative emotions, too. The authors of a new review article in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, takes a look at what oxytocin is really doing.
Oxytocin’s positive effects are well known. Experiments have found that, in games in which you can choose to cooperate or not, people who are given more oxytocin trust their fellow players more. Clinical trials have found that oxytocin can help people with autism, who have trouble in social situations. Studies have also found that oxytocin can increase altruism, generosity, and other behaviors that are good for social life.
But the warm fuzzy side of oxytocin isn’t the whole story. “Quite a number of studies have shown it’s actually not that simple,” says Andrew Kemp of the University of Sydney, who cowrote the paper with his colleague Adam Guastella. Recent studies have found that people who were given oxytocin, then played a game of chance with a fake opponent, had more envy and gloating. These are also both social emotions, but they’re negative. “It kind of rocked the research world a little bit,” Kemp says. That led some researchers to think that oxytocin promotes social emotions in general, both negative and positive.
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I think you were given oxycodone for pain, not oxytocin.
I'm old school.
Oxycontin and Oxycodone are the same, chemically. OxyContin is just a longer, extended release formulation of the medicine.
Where people used to get into ‘trouble’ was when they altered the long acting OxyContin to release all of the medication rapidly. Typically through crushing/dissolving and then ingesting. They have recently put a new formulation on the market that makes it VERY difficult to defeat the time release of the medicine. Most drug abusers now likely find them to be FAR less ‘desirable’.
I surrender.
They should have named this hormone leftrogen.
Nope. Not the same.
Oxytocin is a mammalian hormone that acts primarily as a neuromodulator in the brain. Oxytocin has the distinction of being the very first polypeptide hormone to be sequenced and synthesized biochemically, by Vincent du Vigneaud et al. in 1953.[1]
Oxytocin is best known for its roles in female reproduction.
Oxycodone (OxyContin and other brand names) is an opioid analgesic medication synthesized from opium-derived thebaine. It was developed in 1916 in Germany, as one of several new semi-synthetic opioids in an attempt to improve on the existing opioids: morphine, diacetylmorphine (heroin), and codeine.[1]
Oxycodone oral medications are generally prescribed for the relief of moderate to severe pain.
Me too...
That reminds me that I have a 1911 that needs to be cleaned.
Your Hai Karate reminded me of the same thing.
LOL I totally misread this entire thread!
I thought they were talking about a pain pill! LOL
Did you read the article? Has nothing to do with pain meds.
But this is oxytocin which is something different altogether.
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