The database included 128 males who were diagnosed with a condition on the autism spectrum. But Melissa Hines tells me that Baron-Cohen’s results didn’t show a direct link between them and high fetal testosterone levels. “That was like the ultimate test, and there was no correlation between testosterone and getting an autism spectrum diagnosis,” she says. “That’s just one study, but it doesn’t support it.” Without evidence of a clear connection between the “extreme male brain” and testosterone, when their findings were published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry in 2014, Baron-Cohen and his
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