OXT and autism: This long-lasting improvement of postnatal OXT intervention on social behavior and OXT-ir neurons has also been observed in prairie voles (Bales and Carter, 2003; Yamamoto et al., 2004), mandarin voles (Jia et al., 2008), mice (Mogi et al., 2014), and monogenic mouse models of autism (Meziane et al., 2015; Penagarikano et al., 2015).