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Simon Baron Cohen

Simon Baron Cohen

Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry

Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor at Cambridge University in the fields of psychology and psychiatry.

He is also the Director of Cambridge's internationally-renowned Autism Research Centre. He has carried out research into social neuroscience over a career spanning twenty years. The Essential Difference (Penguin 2003) has been translated in over a dozen languages and put forward the theory of 'the extreme male brain'.