Talk:Vasopressin

my thoughts on potential side-effects of a pharmaceutical drug that does this
But they measured the theory of mind a couple of ways, I think. 1. "memory for happy and angry faces" and 2. "recognition of positively and negatively valenced social words" which means that if they were to make a drug for enhancing memory and recognition of 1 and 2, a possible side effect could probably be ... more depression. Because if all of a sudden you can remember what makes people mad at you and recognize that you're pissing people off, well. That sounds... un-fun. I mean I get it, the idea is that if you can recognize and remember these things, you'll be able to respond better. I would list the pros and cons I've thought of off the top of my head like this

pros
may fit in better socially --> less depression/anxiety about this

cons
may fit in better socially --> more depression/anxiety because you remember people getting mad (at you, etc.) Vasopressin is for not wetting the bed at night and it doesn't stay in your system very long. Presumably a dose that matches what normal people automatically have in their systems wouldn't like fuck with your kidneys or anything but there's a potential issue there. Daytime is presumably when you need theory of mind and nighttime is when you need to not pee. So what am I missing here? Well, I bet for "memory for happy/angry faces" it's that you process those at night. But recognition of + and - words happens pretty immediately, so what's with that?