I confess I don’t play video games. My friends do, my husband does, but to me they always seemed a colossal waste of time. Time I could spend reading, or writing, or cornering the dust bunnies under the bed and tossing them out to fend for themselves. So when I started reading a paper about Oxtocin promoting social behavior in high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (HF-ASD; 1), I was struck that they used a cyberball game (aka video game) as a way to measure the effects of oxtocin on the social behavior of HF-ASD individuals.  Continue reading “Gamers Take Heart: Cyberball Game Helps Researchers Study Oxytocin Treatment for Autism Spectrum Disorders”