OXT and Anxiety: In many studies using both animal and human subjects, oxytocin has been shown to reduce the activity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis [55,56,57,58,59,60], regulate autonomic stress responses [19,61,62,63,64], attenuate inflammation [65,66,67] and reduce anxiety-related behaviors [23,24,68,69,70].