Browsing by Author "Ashwin, Emma"

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      Fetal programming effects of testosterone on the reward system and behavioral approach tendencies in humans 

      Lombardo,Michael V.; Ashwin, Emma; Auyeung, Bonnie; Chakrabarti,B.; Lai,Meng-Chuan; Taylor, Kevin; Hackett, Gerald; Bullmore,Edward T.; Baron-Cohen,Simon (2012)
      Background: Sex differences are present in many neuropsychiatric conditions that affect emotion and approach-avoidance behavior. One potential mechanism underlying such observations is testosterone in early development. ...
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      Fetal testosterone influences sexually dimorphic gray matter in the human brain 

      Lombardo,Michael V.; Ashwin, Emma; Auyeung, Bonnie; Chakrabarti,B.; Taylor, Kevin; Hackett, Gerald; Bullmore,Edward T.; Baron-Cohen,Simon (2012)
      In nonhuman species, testosterone is known to have permanent organizing effects early in life that predict later expression of sex differences in brain and behavior. However, in humans, it is still unknown whether such ...
    • Article  

      Organizational effects of fetal testosterone on human corpus callosum size and asymmetry 

      Chura, Lindsay R.; Lombardo, Michael V.; Ashwin, Emma; Auyeung, Bonnie; Chakrabarti, B.; Bullmore, Edward T.; Baron-Cohen, Simon (2010)
      Previous theory and research in animals has identified the critical role that fetal testosterone (FT) plays in organizing sexually dimorphic brain development. However, to date there are no studies in humans directly testing ...
    • Article  

      Why are Autism Spectrum conditions more prevalent in Males? 

      Baron-Cohen, Simon; Lombardo, Michael V.; Auyeung, Bonnie; Ashwin, Emma; Chakrabarti, B.; Knickmeyer, Rebecca (2011)
      Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) are much more common in males, a bias that may offer clues to the etiology of this condition. Although the cause of this bias remains a mystery, we argue that it occurs because ASC is an ...
    • Book Chapter  

      Why is autism more common in males? 

      Baron-Cohen, Simon; Lombardo, Michael V.; Auyeung, Bonnie; Ashwin, Emma; Chakrabarti, B.; Knickmeyer, Rebecca (2014)
      Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) are much more common in males, a bias that may offer clues to the etiology of this condition. We argue that it occurs because ASC are an extreme manifestation of the male brain. The extreme ...