In the autism world, oxytocin is hot — it's one of the only strong candidates for treatment — but if you believe one group of researchers, some of the most talked-about data is more smoke than fire.Several highly publicized reports have shown that, for people with autism, inhaling oxytocin improves social impairments, repetitive behaviors and the ability to recognize emotions.Others have shown that carrying certain common variants of the oxytocin receptor gene, OXTR, ups the risk of developing autism.According to a team of European researchers, these associations may be just flukes.Read more at...SFARI, April 2010.