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Simon Baron-Cohen

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Name and Degrees

Simon Baron-Cohen, PhD, New College Oxford BA and an MPhil in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kin’s College London. He received his PhD in Psychology from University College in London under the supervision of Prof. Uta Firth.

Major Appointments (Institution, Location, Dates)

Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology, University of Cambridge and Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He is Director, Autism Research Centre (ARC) in Cambridge. He has a degree in Human Sciences from New College, Oxford, a PhD in Psychology from University College London (UCL), and an MPhil in Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, and has held lectureships in these departments. Baron-Cohen is a Fellow of the British Academy.

Major Honors and Awards

Baron-Cohen has received many awards. These include awards from the British Psychological Society (BPS) (Spearman Medal and May Davison Award), the American Psychological Association...

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  • Baron-Cohen, S. (1989). The autistic child’s theory of mind: A case of specific developmental delay. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 30(2), 285–297.

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  • Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Cox, A., Baird, G., Charman, T., Swettenham, J., Drew, A., & Doehring, P. (2000). The early identification of autism: The checklist for autism in toddlers (CHAT). The Journal of Developmental and Learning Disorders, 4, 3–30.

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  • Baron-Cohen, S., Wheelwright, S., Hill, J., Raste, Y., & Plumb, I. (2001). The “reading the mind in the eyes” test revised version: A study with normal adults, and adults with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 42(2), 241–252.

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  • Baron-Cohen, S., Knickmeyer, R. C., & Belmonte, M. K. (2005). Sex differences in the brain: Implications for explaining autism. Science, 310(5749), 819–823.

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  • Baron-Cohen, S., Lombardo, M. V., Auyeung, B., Ashwin, E., Chakrabarti, B., & Knickmeyer, R. (2011). Why are autism spectrum conditions more prevalent in males? PLoS Biology, 9(6), e1001081.

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  • Baron-Cohen, S., Johnson, D., Asher, J., Wheelwright, S., Fisher, S. E., Gregersen, P. K., & Allison, C. (2013). Is synaesthesia more common in autism? Molecular Autism, 4(1), 40.

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  • Baron-Cohen, S., Auyeung, B., Nørgaard-Pedersen, B., Hougaard, D. M., Abdallah, M. W., Melgaard, L., Cohen, A. S., Chakrabarti, B., Ruta, L., & Lombardo, M. V. (2015). Elevated fetal steroidogenic activity in autism. Molecular Psychiatry, 20, 369–376.

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  • Chakrabarti, B., Kent, L., Suckling, J., Bullmore, E., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2006). Variations in the human cannabinoid receptor (CNR1) gene modulate striatal response to happy faces. European Journal of Neuroscience, 23, 1944–1948.

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  • Lai, M. C., Lombardo, M. V., Suckling, J., Ruigrok, A. N., Chakrabarti, B., Ecker, C., Deoni, S. C., Craig, M. C., Murphy, D. G., Bullmore, E. T., MRC AIMS Consortium, & Baron-Cohen, S. (2013). Biological sex affects the neurobiology of autism. Brain, 136(Pt 9), 2799–2815.

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  • Lai, M.-C., Lombardo, M., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2014). Autism. The Lancet, 383, 896–910.

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  • Schwarz, E., Guest, P., Rahmoune, H., Wang, L., Levin, Y., Ingudomnukul, E., Ruta, L., Kent, L., Spain, M., Baron-Cohen, S., & Bahn, S. (2011). Sex-specific serum biomarker patterns in adults with Asperger’s syndrome. Molecular Psychiatry, 16, 1213–1220.

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  • Warrier, V., Baron-Cohen, S., & Chakrabarti, B. (2013). Genetic variation in GABRB3 is associated with Asperger syndrome and multiple endophenotypes relevant to autism. Molecular Autism, 4(1), 48.

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  • Welchew, D., Ashwin, C., Berkouk, K., Salvador, R., Suckling, J., Baron-Cohen, S., & Bullmore, E. (2005). Functional dysconnectivity of the medial temporal lobe in autism. Biological Psychiatry, 57, 991–998.

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  1. Institute of Neuroscience, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Marc Woodbury-Smith

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  1. Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Fred R. Volkmar

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Woodbury-Smith, M. (2017). Simon Baron-Cohen. In: Volkmar, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_102168-1

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