Intranasal oxytocin can relieve stress in singers during singing performance: Study
Brazil: Oxytocin (OXT) can minimize social stress, particularly during signing performances, concludes a study published in Frontiers in Neuroscience.
"The finding is exploratory, and its confirmation if made in future research, may be relevant for musicians, particularly for those who constantly face negative and catastrophic thoughts on professional and performance activities," Flávia de Lima Osório, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, São Paulo University, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil, and colleagues wrote in their study.
Professional musicians experience high preoccupation levels, intense social exposure to their performance, and potential adverse reactions from the audience, leading to anxiety. These experiences constitute what is called music performance anxiety (MPA). MPA can be defined as a subtype of social anxiety tied to a specific performance condition.
Oxytocin is shown to have a potential therapeutic effect on cognitive processes, anxiety, and decreased psychosocial stress. Considering this, the research team aimed to examine the impact of a single dose of 24 UI of intranasal OXT in professional singers during a public singing simulation test on self-rated mood and performance.
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