Vasopressin may be a key pathway in the brain that, when dysregulated, contributes to autism, potentially through reduced social interest and eye contact.

“what if vas oppress is one of those Pathways because it's so critically involved in Social functioning”

“but at the same time I have to presume that this I'm imagining this V supress just kind of like preting through the brain binding to whatever receptors happen to be there you said The receptors are everywhere and then this significant Improvement in social cognition right so that raises all sorts of interesting questions about like what are what relevant circuits are impacted um or is it some Global Inc could it be some global increase in kind of awareness of surroundings um although some autistic kids are overwhelmed by their awareness of surroundings so um yeah what are some thoughts about how vasopress might be working to exert this this really impressive and frankly important effect right so I mean could it increase social motivation does it you know like so let's talk about like how sort of complexity of social um sensory processing is it that were directing attention to social cues where there wouldn't have necessarily been as much iess right um are we increasing social motivation which would suggest from some of the animal studies may actually be happening right”