Post hoc connectivity analysis
CTQ‐EN
With our results indicating that OXT increases neural activation in amygdala and hippocampus, and simultaneously decreases activation in sPFC and vmPFC in individuals with high emotional neglect scores, we conducted an exploratory connectivity analysis to probe whether OXT administration results in attenuated prefrontal control allowing for an increase of activity in limbic areas (see For connectivity from the sPFC seed region to amygdala and hippocampus, no suprathreshold activation clusters were found in the neutral and positive condition in either of the two drug contrasts (OXT > placebo; placebo > OXT). For connectivity between the vmPFC seed region with amygdala and hippocampus, no suprathreshold activation clusters were found for either drug contrast in the neutral condition or the placebo > OXT contrast in the positive condition. In the OXT > placebo contrast, one activation cluster (−22, −32, −6) containing one voxel was found in the hippocampus after SVC. No suprathreshold clusters were detected in the amygdala. In sum, we did not find any significant relationship between connectivity within our ROIs and CTQ‐EN after correction for multiple comparisons.