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. 2014 Apr 9;39(9):2070–2077. doi: 10.1038/npp.2014.68

Table 2. Social and Nonsocial Cognitive Assessments.

    Placebo
Oxytocin
Effects p<0.05
    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).