OXT and Abnormal emotional state: This interpretation aligns with prior research demonstrating that intranasal OXT promotes more secure attachment responses (Buchheim et al., 2009), reducing excessive amygdala-hippocampal connectivity that is associated with emotional dysregulation (Alaerts et al., 2019) and that an intervention of warm touch by a married partner has shown to decrease the enhanced OXT levels in depressed patients (Holt-Lunstad et al., 2011).