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Elizabeth Hammock

Assistant professor, Florida State University

Elizabeth Hammock is assistant professor of psychology at Florida State University.

July 2019

How the social hormone vasopressin might help autistic people

by  /  9 July 2019

A drug that mimics the hormone vasopressin improves social skills in autistic people — but so does one that blocks vasopressin’s effects. How can seemingly opposing manipulations produce similar results?

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