A new study investigates the neurochemical effects of oxytocin in people at clinical high risk for psychosis  ----- Dan on Twitter and Instagram

A new Nature Neuroscience study suggests that oxytocin modulates social value representations in the amygdala  ----- Dan on Twitter and Instagram

A new study suggests that oxytocin signalling plays a role in amygdala–hippocampal connectivity in autism ----- Dan on Twitter and Instagram

A new study suggests that oxytocin treatment reduces food intake and body fat in an animal model of post-menopause ----- Dan on Twitter and Instagram

A new study assesses the social salience hypothesis of oxytocin in a fish species ----- Dan on Twitter and Instagram

A new study in Molecular Autism reports that the oxytocin receptor gene predicts brain activity during an emotion recognition task in autism ----- Dan on Twitter and Instagram

A new study in Translational Psychiatry examines the Effect of age and autism spectrum disorder on oxytocin receptor density in the brain ----- Dan on Twitter and Instagram

A new study demonstrates that oxytocin selectively improves empathic accuracy ----- Dan on Twitter and Instagram

 A new study demonstrates that intranasal oxytocin modulates higher order social cognition in body dysmorphic disorder  ----- Dan on Twitter and Instagram

A new study demonstrates that prefrontal cortical neurons that express the oxytocin receptor modulate social recognition ----- Dan on Twitter and Instagram

A new study demonstrates that cortisol and oxytocin show independent activity during chimpanzee intergroup conflict ----- Dan on Twitter and Instagram

A new replication study confirms that women’s facial masculinity preferences are predicted by the interaction between their relationship status and average progesterone levels. ----- Dan on Twitter and Instagram

A new study in eLife suggests that oxytocin promotes coordinated out-group attack during intergroup conflict ----- Dan on Twitter and Instagram

A new study suggests that an oxytocin-like peptide regulates behavior in ants. ----- Dan on Twitter and Instagram

A new preprint suggests that social status in mouse social hierarchies is associated with variation in oxytocin receptor densities ----- Dan on Twitter and Instagram

A new study suggests that oxytocin improves learning in rats ----- Dan on Twitter and Instagram

A new study suggests that oxytocin levels are associated with impaired social cognition in schizophrenia. -------- Follow Dan on Twitter and Instagram

A new study identifies how oxytocin might be transported into the brain to elicit social behaviour.

Dan summarises a new preprint that describes a study investigating whether direct nose-to-brain pathways underlie intranasal oxytocin-induced changes in regional cerebral blood flow in humans

This an audio paper on oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain, published in Nature Communications. Read the full paper here. Links Dan on Twitter Dan on Instagram

This an audio paper on remedies for three common issues in meta-analysis: lack of pre-registration, misinterpretation of funnel plots, and effect size dependencies. Read the paper preprint here.  Links Dan on Twitter Dan on Instagram

Here's a talk I recently gave at Leiden University on December 12th 2018. I provide an overview of HRV and its role in mental illness, which is generally characterised by reduced HRV. I will also cover how reduced HRV has important functional significance for social behaviours and psychological flexibility in response to stressors. Easy access to measuring HRV is both one of its strengths and weaknesses, so I also discuss its responsible application in biobehavioral research.  Links Here's...

I had a chat with Belinda Poole, a graduate student from the University of Sydney (my alma mater!), about her first meta-analysis. We discuss the publication of meta-analysis protocols, how to best find mistakes in your data extraction, and using the JAMOVI software package as a stepping stone to R for meta-analysis.  Links Tutorial paper on meta-analysis P uniform Statcheck R meta-analysis mailing list JAMOVI Twitter Video episodes on Instagram Video episodes on YouTube

In this episode, I share an audio version of a recent paper on Bayesian alternatives for null hypothesis significance tests. Read the open access paper here. Full reference to the paper: Quintana, D.S. & Williams, D.R. Bayesian alternatives for common null- hypothesis significance tests in psychiatry: a non-technical guide using JASP BMC Psychiatry (2018) 18: 178. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-018-1761-4 Links Dan on Twitter Dan on Instagram

I recently had a chat with Thea, a PhD student from New York University, about her first meta-analysis. We discuss the value of learning meta-analysis, the difference between publication bias and small study bias, leave-one-out analyses, using the R meta-analysis mailing list for solving problems, comparing correlations, and the benefits of Twitter when you're learning a new skill. ------- Links Tutorial paper on meta-analysis TOSTER R package R meta-analysis mailing list Comparing...