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Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Another use for oxytocin: inferring others' mental states
Oxytocin is a magic peptide that is involved in bonding, trust, orgasms, and timing childbirth, among other things. Now we know that it is also involved in inferring the mental states of others, which implicates it in autism.
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