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15 Apr 2014, 5:15 am

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If an association is found it will give some empirical support to Simon Baron-Cohen's theories, I suppose.*edited for grammar/tense.


I don't think that would necessarily be the case. Foetal testosterone does not necessarily translate to "extreme male brain," and brain scans have already shown that autism attenuates gender differences in brain structure:

http://www.ajnr.org/content/33/1/83.short



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16 Apr 2014, 1:42 am

Verdandi wrote:
I don't think that would necessarily be the case. Foetal testosterone does not necessarily translate to "extreme male brain,"


It wouldn't prove the theory but it would lend support to it.



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16 Apr 2014, 5:33 am

Not if autistic brains are still "basically androgynous brains."

I think that exposure to testosterone as a fetus does correlate to more autistic traits, but autistic traits don't include an actual "extreme male brain" and the traits SBC identifies as "extremely male" are kind of cherry picked.



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16 Apr 2014, 5:46 am

Verdandi wrote:
I don't think that would necessarily be the case. Foetal testosterone does not necessarily translate to "extreme male brain," and brain scans have already shown that autism attenuates gender differences in brain structure:

http://www.ajnr.org/content/33/1/83.short


Doesn't that paper just mean there is less sexual dimorphism between the male autistic brain and the female autistic brain, compared to the male NT brain and the female NT brain? Where there are obvious differences.

Doesn't that go with the whole idea that the female autistic brain is more masculinized and therefore more similar to the male autistic brain?

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18 Apr 2014, 11:36 am

An interesting article about it here, as well as some videos of him speaking:

A Conversation With Simon Baron-Cohen

http://edge.org/conversation/testosterone-on-my-mind

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