The precise timing and mechanism of vasopressin's effects on social engagement in children with autism are not yet known.

“we don't know the answer to that so we basically looked at dosing with the idea that we would you know and and again I think we've mentioned this about um limitations on like there's so many things that a scientist would like to do but you always limited by a budget right and so when we started this work again it was like philanthropic shoestring budgets right and so you had to really be laser focused on what are the things that we can do on the budget at hand so unfortunately we didn't do like EEG or brain Imaging or other things that would be I think potentially very interesting to do”