'Love' hormone may help autism symptoms

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15 Feb 2010, 8:49 pm

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/wellb ... m-symptoms

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Shame they didnt get their PCness right though...
"The participants, 11 men and two women, had no medication two weeks before the study, which included a control group of an equal number of healthy men and women."
Err - are Aspies not healthy? :roll:

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15 Feb 2010, 9:59 pm

This could explain the fact that while I hate romance and courtship, I seem to function slightly better when I'm in a stable long-term relationship. That's when oxytocin is released; the dopamine never cut it for me (from the early phases).

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15 Feb 2010, 10:46 pm

As it turns out, love is good for everybody.

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15 Feb 2010, 11:43 pm

now if it just wasn't an abused drug...

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16 Feb 2010, 9:43 am

Ooh I WANT!!

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16 Feb 2010, 10:08 am

This could fit for me as I have much less pronounced problems with my girlfriend even when we first met and also, if I think back my symptoms were not as bad when I was breastfeeding my son (which oxytocin is also involved with)

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17 Feb 2010, 11:19 am

Quote:

Shame they didnt get their PCness right though...
"The participants, 11 men and two women, had no medication two weeks before the study, which included a control group of an equal number of healthy men and women."
Err - are Aspies not healthy?

Yeah I noticed that as well! :lol:

I'm not healthy but that's not because of the AS!

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17 Feb 2010, 11:26 pm

There's a lot of research being done on oxitocin and ASD, it also reduces repetative behaviors in adult autistics while increasing it in adult OCD's

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18 Feb 2010, 5:19 pm

I don't know about this one. I'd better steer clear.

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19 Feb 2010, 7:22 am

interesting thought. i become more sociable and confident when i discovered that someone fell for me, and i fell for him.

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20 Feb 2010, 9:58 pm

I found that even sexual activity does the trick for a couple of hours. For me, it's a pronounced and obvious difference...and it also motivates me to take better care of my appearance, and increases my awareness of what my body is doing...

I felt it was halfway like a cure, actually. They really REALLY need to make oxytocin available to us, ASAP.

I'm glad other people are noticing the change, I thought I was delusional.

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23 Feb 2010, 2:12 pm

in some ways it calms me and makes me content for awhile and other times it does hell for my anxiety
so double edged for me lol

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23 Feb 2010, 2:40 pm

blek I want the hormone that drives me into a homicidal rage. I always feel better when I'm angry and hitting a punching bag or beating the crap out of exercise equipment.

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23 Feb 2010, 4:41 pm

Id love to try the oxytocin nasil spray myself, except last time I went into a doctor's office for an actual medicine to help autism, I got the whole "autism is a learning disability" then got sidelined and avoided an RX of the actual medicine cause it seemed too "experimental" or some crap like that. Seems that if its not Prozac, it scares the hell out of them.

As impressed as I am with my current medicine now that Ive gotten a chance at it (ended up with a phone consult with a doctor across the country), I have to wonder if maybe some of those quacky doctors might not be as quacky as I thought they were, not that they are still quacks. WTB trial of Oxytocin Nasil Spray.

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