Findings suggest that oxytocin reduces the acute stress response (Pitman, Orr, & Lasko, 1993) and improves neural functioning in emotion regulation (Olff et al., 2015) and reward networks (Nawijn et al., 2016) in PTSD patients, and is currently being examined as a potential therapeutic agent (Olff et al., 2015). Here, OXT is linked to post-traumatic stress disorder.