He explored the literature on the linkage between these neuropeptides and social cognition and behaviour, attachment, aggression, fear - conditioning and extinction etc. He looked into the effects of these drugs on Autism Spectrum Disorders (reduction in volume of Anterior Cingulate, impact on implicit memeory, memory for faces, modulation of recollection of maternal care) and Schizophrenia (Oxytocin has a antipsychotic like effect).
Pradeep also described the studies using the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) and finally came to his favourite topic - the connection with genetics. He discussed about the receptors (Arginine Vasopressin Receptor at ch12q13-15 and Oxytocin Receptor at ch2p25.3) and CD38 the transmembrane protein involved in Oxytocin secretion.