[New Paper] Oxytocin's effects on adults with ASD

Our new paper has finally come in online-first in JAMA Psychiatry. (formerly, Archives of General Psychiatry)

Mitigation of Sociocommunicational Deficits of Autism Through Oxytocin-Induced Recovery of Medial Prefrontal Activity: A Randomized Trial. Watanabe et al., 

Published online December 18, 2013. doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2013.3181

This paper was actually accepted in the end of the last May. I’m happy to be now allowed to officially announce the paper, which provides the first direct evidence of oxytocin’s beneficial effects on socio-communicational aspects of adults with ASDs. 

This paper talks about the effects of single-shot of oxytocin, and now we are summerising effects of daily use of oxytocin. 

Move to ICN in UCL

I've moved to the lab of Prof. Geraint Rees in Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) in University College London (UCL).

Presentation in SfN 2013 @ San Diego

On the last dat of SfN 2013 (13rd Nov), I will perform an oral presentation on neural networks underlying conflict resolution of social information. Just like the last year, the presentation will be held in early morning.

Japan Neuro 2013 @ Kyoto

Japan Neuro 2013 was over. If things go as I hope, my next presentation will be in SfN Meeting 2013 in San Diego in the united states.  

Presentation Poster: application of a pairwise MEM to resting-state brain network

Black diamond @ Copenhagen in Denmark

I uploaded a pdf file on my presentation in NetSci 2013 in Copenhagen.

NetSci 2013

Copenhagen Library (Wikipedia)

I will attend NetSci 2013 in Copenhagen in the next week. There, I will do a poster presentation on the complexity (or simplicity) of our brain network: The resting-state functional connectivity network in our brain is not so complex. It can be described by using up to second-order interactions.