Latest Research Published on PNAS by Professor Keith Kendrick and His Team ——Oxytocin, the peptide that bonds the sexes also divides them
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Recently, an article titled: “Oxytocin, the peptide that bonds the sexes also divides them.” was published on PNSA (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) in Neuron Science Column by School of Life Science and Technology in alliance with the School of Foreign Language. Professor Shan Gao from the neural language study team and Professor Benjamin Becker from School of Life Science and Technology were both listed as the first authors with Professor Keith Kendrick as the corresponding author and the UESTC as the authorized institution. This paper is a representative piece of what this university has achieved in the field of neural science.

Recently, an article titled: “Oxytocin, the peptide that bonds the sexes also divides them.” was published on PNSA (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America) in Neuron Science Column by School of Life Science and Technology in alliance with the School of Foreign Language. Professor Shan Gao from the neural language study team and Professor Benjamin Becker from School of Life Science and Technology were both listed as the first authors with Professor Keith Kendrick as the corresponding author and the UESTC as the authorized institution. This paper is a representative piece of what this university has achieved in the field of neural science.



This study, via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology, examined oxytocin effect on male and female social evaluation and brain activities under positive and negative social context (compliment or criticism). The results of brain imaging revealed that oxytocin significantly intensified amygdala response towards negative social context in male and also boosted the response towards positive social language information in female. These brain activities changes with corresponding behavioral alterations, resulted in increase in females’ social evaluation; whereas the opposite tendency appeared for males. This research brought in light oxytocin’s role in adjusting gender-specific social cognition that formed throughout revolution which could be applied to improve individuals’ social interaction and also served as a potential alternative treatment of autism and other mental disorders for clinical researches over oxytocin.

Professor Shan Gao, mainly focused on language, mental processing, emotion and other interactions of cognitive processing, has published another manuscript titled “Second language feedback abolishes the ‘hot hand’ effect during even-probability gambling.” last year on high-level journal: Journal of Neuroscience. Her recent studies were done when she’s fighting for Ph.D in School of Life Science and Technology and supervised by Professor Kendrick.