Hormone supplementation in rhesus monkeys points to potential autism treatment

Photo: Rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta mulatta), male, Gokarna Forest, Near Kathmandu, Nepal. November 17, 2019. Photo credit: Charles J. Sharp – Sharp Photography. Wikimedia. CC BY-SA 4.0 (No modifications). Article by Madeline Taylor. Medical Xpress – April 28, 2025. Source: Florida Institute of Technology. Research article: PNAS.

For years, Florida Tech’s Catherine Talbot, an assistant professor of psychology, has worked to understand the sociality of male rhesus monkeys and how low-social monkeys can serve as a model for humans with autism. Her most recent findings show that replenishing a deficient hormone, vasopressin, helped the monkeys become more social without increasing their aggression—a discovery that could change autism treatment. […]

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