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Simon Baron-Cohen, director of Cambridge University's Autism Research Centre, has shown in past research that men are more likely than women to score low on tests of empathy but high on tests of "systemizing" - recognizing rules and patterns - characteristics that, in the extreme, define autism. That's what led Baron-Cohen to regard the disorder - which is about three to four times as prevalent in boys as in girls - as one of the extreme male brain and to search for a link to male hormones. (See "The Year in Medicine: From...
...paper, published on Monday in the British Journal of Psychology, Baron-Cohen studied 235 pairs of mothers and children over eight years, periodically giving the children questionnaires designed to measure autistic traits. None of the children in the study received an autism diagnosis, but Baron-Cohen found that those who had been exposed to higher testosterone levels in the womb - measured via amniocentesis during pregnancy - had a greater chance of displaying autism-associated traits such as poor social skills, imagination and empathy and high aptitude in certain memory-retention exercises...
...Pants were totally last season,” Rebecca Cohen ’12 told questioners. “When I got up this morning, I knew that today just wasn’t the day to wear pants...
...Staff writer Jay M. Cohen can be reached at jaycohen@fas.harvard.edu...
...disaster. “It says that we are young,” Tay said of the team’s inconsistency. “It’s been a rollercoaster ride so far this season.”—Staff writer Jay M. Cohen can be reached at jaycohen@fas.harvard.edu...