Hormone hugs help cure depression

Using the so-called hormone hugs can be a breakthrough in the treatment of depression, the researchers found both from Concordia University in Canada. However, for this people must often communicate with each other.

Oxytocin

  Treating depression oxytocin Which is sometimes called the "hormone of hugging," can help patients to seek help from other people instead withdraw into themselves. Oxytocin is a hormone that helps the person to establish an emotional connection with others. In many organisms, it is highlighted in the young mothers who need to establish a relationship with the kids were born.

"Using Oxytocin   can change the habitual behavior of people experiencing difficult life situations that meet the outside world or aggression, or try to isolate themselves, - said study author Dr. Mark Ellenbogen. - Oxytocin may help to change that strategy. It will encourage people to communicate, to seek assistance from friends and relatives in the event of stress. It is often called "the hormone embrace" and is a great tool for treatment of depression ".

In the experiment, 100 student volunteers received either oxytocin in the form of a nasal spray, or placebo. Then they participated in discussions that encourage real life. During these conversations lead specifically to straighten out, interrupted, rudely cutting short test, to see how they would react to it.

It turned out that the volunteers received a dose of oxytocin were significantly more likely subsequently sought moral support to the other participants in the discussions, but not to withdraw into themselves. Inhalation of spray with oxytocin strengthens their confidence in the people. (READ MORE)

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