Sex Differences in the Brain: Implications for Explaining Autism

By Simon Baron-Cohen, Rebecca C. Knickmeyer, Matthew K. Belmonte. Science, 2005

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Genetics

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A Behavioral Comparison of Male and Female Adults with High Functioning Autism Spectrum Conditions (2011, neutral): “Finally, it may be that at the cognitive and/or biological levels, ASC is an extreme of the male brain (EMB) in the domains of empathy and systemizing [9,29,30].”
Cognitive Styles of Music Listening (2008, background): “Systemizing is expected to rely on greater local connectivity whereas empathising is believed to require the cooperation of longerdistant neural networks (Baron-Cohen et al., 2005).”
Sex Differences in the Brain: The Not So Inconvenient Truth (2012, background): “…as prevalent and anorexia nervosa is a disturbing 13 times more frequent in women (De Vries and Simerly, 2002; Simerly, 2002; Morris et al., 2004; Baron-Cohen et al., 2005; Cahill, 2006; Forger, 2009; McCarthy et al., 2009; Abel et al., 2010; Jazin and Cahill, 2010; McCarthy and Arnold, 2011).”
Environmental risk factors for autism: an evidence-based review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses (2017, neutral): “, more systematizing, less empathizing) [92].”
Why Are Autism Spectrum Conditions More Prevalent in Males? (2011, background): “Some key examples of typical sexual dimorphism reveal an extreme of the typical male profile in the neurodevelopment of ASC [19].”
Empathy: Gender effects in brain and behavior (2014, background): “Some have proposed reduced social tuning may be a potential factor contributing to autism (i.e., Chevallier et al., 2012), a disorder characterized by impairments in social competence and empathy (Baron-Cohen et al., 2005).”
Estrogen Actions in the Brain and the Basis for Differential Action in Men and Women: A Case for Sex-Specific Medicines (2010, background): “…sex differences in their incidence, manifestation, severity, and/or progression, such as PD, schizophrenia, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and autism (Aleman et al., 2003; Hennessy et al., 2004; Barnes et al., 2005; Baron-Cohen et al., 2005; Shulman and Bhat, 2006; Becker and Hu, 2008).”
Gender differences in brain networks supporting empathy (2008, background): “Empathizing–systemizing theory of psychological gender differences Baron-Cohen et al. (2005) suggested that psychological gender differences can be described by the relationship between the degree of empathizing (defined as the tendency to infer mental and emotional states of others and respond…”
Faculty Experience With College Students With Autism Spectrum Disorders (2014, background): “Research has shown that individuals with ASDs have impaired empathy, which leads to the conceptual framework of autism as a disorder that includes the inability to have “normal reciprocal social relationships” (Baron-Cohen et al., 2005, p. 631).”