Table 2. Social and Nonsocial Cognitive Assessments.
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Placebo |
Oxytocin |
Effects p<0.05 |
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| Baseline mean (SD) (n=14) | Posttreatment mean (SD) (n=11) | 1 month follow up mean (SD) (n=10) | Baseline mean (SD) (n=13) | Posttreatment mean (SD) (n=11) | 1 month follow up mean (SD) (n=11) | Time (placebo) | Time (oxytocin) | Time (combined groups) | Oxytocin | ||
| PONS | Total (of 110) | 81.3 (4.4) | 83.1 (7.1) | 86.4 (6.7) | 79.3 (7.2) | 79.2 (8.6) | 81.6 (5.6) | p=0.04 at 1 month | |||
| TASIT | Total (of 64) | 49.5 (6.1) | 49.1 (6.4) | 51.3 (4.4) | 46.1 (6.2) | 46.5 (6.5) | 47.4 (7.1) | ||||
| Lie (of 32) | 26.2 (3.6) | 25.4 (4.7) | 27.1 (3.6) | 23.6 (3.7) | 23.4 (4.4) | 24.3 (4) | |||||
| Sarcasm (of 32) | 23.2 (4.8) | 23.7 (5.4) | 24.2 (4.9) | 22.5 (5.3) | 23.1 (5.8) | 23.1 (6.6) | |||||
| Facial affect recognition | Fraction correct | 0.75 (0.1) | 0.9 (0.1) | 0.91 (0.1) | 0.78 (0.1) | 0.86 (0.1) | 0.84 (0.1) | p<0.0001 posttreatment and at 1 month | p=0.0003 posttreatment and p=0.01 at 1 month | p<0.0001 posttreatment and at 1 month | |
| Empathic accuracy | Total (r) | 0.66 (0.2) | 0.64 (0.2) | 0.65 (0.1) | 0.62 (0.2) | 0.71 (0.2) | 0.7 (0.2) | p=0.03 posttreatment and at 1 month | |||
| MSCEIT managing emotions | Score (of 150) | 82.2 (14) | 91 (17) | 89.5 (11) | 83.6 (15) | 86.2 (18) | 87.8 (15) | p=0.02 posttreatment | p=0.01 posttreatment and p=0.03 at 1 month | ||
| Social-cognition composite | Z-score | 0.035 (0.8) | 0.35 (0.8) | 0.51 (0.6) | −0.13 (0.8) | 0.11 (0.7) | 0.29 (0.7) | p=0.05 posttreatment | p=0.03 posttreatment and p<0.01 at 1 month | ||
| MCCB nonsocial composite | Z-score | −0.09 (0.6) | 0.11 (0.5) | 0.41 (0.5) | 0.09 (0.8) | 0.08 (0.9) | 0.16 (1) | p=0.004 at 1 month | p<0.01 at 1 month | ||
Values in the last four columns indicate statistically significant (p<0.05) within-group effects (indicated by placebo or oxytocin), main effects of time (indicated by combined groups) or treatment x-time interactions (in oxytocin column).