A nose spray that seems to make men more 'emotional'

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Men are notorious for not being as empathetic as women. But now, there's a nose spray that could change all that. It's the same hormone that's used for inducing labor and bonding between mother and child, oxytocin.
Do men need to be more sensitive? The BBC reports that a team of researchers in Germany and the UK set out to discover whether they could indeed be. What they found is that the women's labor inducing drug, oxytocin, when sprayed up men's' noses, made them a good deal more empathetic, just like the ladies.
The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, involved 48 male volunteers.
First, half of the group received a nose spray containing the oxytocin, while the other half were given a dummy spray.
All the men were then shown photographs of emotionally charged situations, which included a crying child, a girl hugging her cat, and a grieving man. They were asked how they felt about the situations, and about how deeply they responded.
The researchers found that the men taking the hormone spray has significantly higher levels of empathy in a similar magnitude to those usually seen in women.
The subjects were then put through another test in which researchers measured "socially motivated learning". The volunteers were asked to do a difficult observation test and were shown an approving face if they got the answer right and an unhappy face if they got it wrong.
People generally learn faster when they are given positive feedback, but the researchers say all the men who took the oxytocin responded far better to facial feedback than those in the placebo group.
Study leader Professor Keith Kendrick, a neuroscientist at Cambridge University, says the oxytocin spray may be useful for people with conditions associated with reduced social approachability and social withdrawal, such as schizophrenia.

"The bottom line is it improved the ability of people to learn when they had positive feedback and that is pretty important because this might help improve the effectiveness of behavioral therapy or even be useful in people with learning difficulties."

Other researchers are looking at its possible use for autism.
Professor Gareth Leng from Edinburgh University said the research used some well-designed tests. He added there has been a lot of interest recently on oxytocin and social behavior.
Oxytocin is a naturally produced hormone, most well-known for triggering women's labor pains and promoting bonding between mother and baby.
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