Rolf, Isn't this just more evidence that the effect is limited rather than non-existent?
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It may well be that it doesn't even reach the brain via the nose. I've seen too many hard null results to believe in any effects. It just shows how expectations may give researchers tunnel vision.
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Yet a popular view is now that oxytocin impacts social cognition depending on context and individual dispositions (Bartz, 2011). These interactions should clearly be under close scrutiny ;-)
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Time to bust all those Ted Talks now
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Rolf, I think when we base our conclusions too much on limited evidence (oxytocin is a cure; oxytocin doesn't work at all) then we move away from science. It's a great field to be in and exciting to have debates about mechanisms, actions and therapeutics.
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Effects on higher level functions e.g. ‘mind reading’ have mostly failed to replicate (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26142239/ …) - effects on basal domains such as emotional empathy / self other distinction appear to be more robust (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30108475/?i=4&from=geng%20becker%20oxytocin … / https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/552703v1 …)
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How was it delivered? Does it cross the blood-brain barrier? Is there any reason to think that bad pharmacokinetics can't fully account for this finding?
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(I assume the answer is yes, but it's always good to check.)
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