These results, which have been now extended to humans with intranasal oxytocin, indicate a role of this ancient neuropeptide in numerous features of human social interaction, from empathy (emotional and cognitive) and decision making to emotional face recognition, trust, and also in the alterations in social interaction seen in mental pathologies, such as in schizophrenia, autism, drug abuse, and addiction, as evidenced by the exponentially increasing number of studies that appear on these topics in scientific literature medlines (see [32,33,40,46,47,48,188,189,191] and references therein). Here, OXT is linked to autism.