Intranasal Oxytocin and Physical Intimacy for Dermatological Wound Healing and Neuroendocrine Stress

This randomized clinical trial examines the effects of repeated intranasal oxytocin administration and a behavioral microintervention on neuroendocrine stress responses and dermatological wound healing.

• Publication year

  2025

• Venue

  JAMA psychiatry

• Publication date

  2025-11-12

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.3705PMID 41222549PMCID 12613093
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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