OXTR and autism: Offspring autism development, as a consequence of high levels of Pitocin infusion during long labors with long Pitocin infusion times, may result in the desensitization and downregulation of oxytocin receptors in the fetal brain, is reviewed in light of recent epidemiological studies by Harvard, Yale, and Duke universities, with reference to an earlier paper by the author presenting a mathematical model as to how this might occur.