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The Essential Difference: Male and Female Brains and the Truth about Autism » (Reprint)

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Authors: Simon Baron-cohen
ISBN-13: 9780465005567, ISBN-10: 046500556X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: August 2004
Edition: Reprint

Author Biography: Simon Baron-cohen

Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at Cambridge University and co-director of its Autism Research Centre. He has carried out research into both autism and sex differences over a twenty-year career. He is the author of Autism: The Facts and Mindblindness.

Book Synopsis

The science behind Mars and Venus, including the surprising link between the extreme male brain and autism

The Washington Post

He has come up with a fascinating crazy-quilt of studies to prove our sexual differences...I thank Simon Baron-Cohen more than I can say for having written this book. It has explained a good part of my own life to me; it's made men achingly human to me.—Carolyn See

	List of Figures
	Acknowledgments
1	The Male and Female Brain	1
2	Boy Meets Girl	13
3	What Is Empathizing?	21
4	The Female Brain as Empathizer: The Evidence	29
5	What Is Systemizing?	61
6	The Male Brain as Systemizer: The Evidence	69
7	Culture	85
8	Biology	95
9	Evolution of the Male and Female Brain	117
10	Autism: The Extreme Male Brain	133
11	A Professor of Mathematics	155
12	The Extreme Female Brain: Back to the Future	171
App. 1	The "Reading the Mind in the Eyes" Test	187
App. 2	The Empathy Quotient (EQ)	201
App. 3	The Systemizing Quotient (SQ)	209
App. 4	The Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ)	217
	References	223
	Bibliography	235
	Index	265

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