Oxytocin is also released within various brain regions from axonal terminals of oxytocin neurones and from dendrites or cell bodies of magnocellular oxytocin neurones of the hypothalamus 2, and it has been implicated in various functions 1, including social behaviour 3–5, anxiety and stress 6,7, as well as pain and energy metabolism 7,8. Here, OXT is linked to Anxiety.