Re:The Look of Love Is in the Dog’s Eyes
by amelius on Sunday April 19, 2015 @06:19AM
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Wondering, is it possible to increase one's levels of oxytocin with drugs?
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There have been preliminary experiments intended to answer this question. I remember one of them involved administering oxytocin as some sort of spray. I can't remember if these trials were in animals or humans.
One of the hypothesized effects of increasing oxytocin levels is making people with autistic minds think and behave in more typical ways. If this comes to fruition, I hope that autistic people will be able to help decide whether they become more typical or not.
Because it's not well understood (and may be very powerful), a widely-used oxytocin-increasing drug seems to be quite a few years away.