A hormone that promotes mother baby bonding, socialization, and trust may help people with Asperger's Syndrome, a disorder on the autism spectrum.

• Researchers from the University of Lyons in France had 13 people with Asperger's and a control group matched for gender and age sniff the hormone oxytocin.
  
• The subjects with the high functioning autism improved their social learning skills and spent more time looking at pictures of faces after using the hormone.

This study appears in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.

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