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Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry • 2018 | View Paper
“Acute MDMA or ecstasy ’ can generate increased levels of oxytocin and cortisol, and these neurohormonal changes may be important for its mood-enhancing and energy-activation effects in humans.”
“The effects of chronic MDMA usage on oxytocin still need to be investigated.”
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews • 2015 | View Paper
“Recent evidence suggests that popular party drugs such as MDMA and gamma‐hydroxybutyrate (GHB) may preferentially activate brain oxytocin systems to produce their characteristic prosocial and prosexual effects.”
“Studies have shown that MDMA and amphetamine increase emotional empathy without affecting cognitive empathy; MDMA simultaneously leads to elevated levels of oxytocin , unrelated to its behavioral effects.”
“One drug, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ecstasy), seems to produce its prosocial effects by increasing plasma oxytocin levels, and the oxytocin system has been implicated in responses to several other drugs of abuse.”