Simon Baron-Cohen

Employment

• University of Cambridge Professor
  1994 - Present

Education

Education history is unavailable.

Projects & Funding

• Common Variant Genetics of Autism and Autistic Traits (GWAS) Consortium Wellcome Trust
  2019 - 2024

Publications (837)

• Sex differences in pregnancy complications and autism
  2026 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-11350298/v1
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• Increased risk of major ischaemic events among autistic people
  2026 DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.01.26357011
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• The prenatal sex steroid theory of autism after 25 years
  Nature Human Behaviour 2026 DOI: 10.1038/s41562-026-02437-0
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• Examining Social Barriers in Adults With ADHD: The Role of Autistic Traits, Empathy, Theory of Mind in Social Anxiety and Avoidance
  Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 2026 DOI: 10.1111/acps.70067
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• Neurodiversity‐Affirming Principles in Oncology Treatment: A Lived‐Experience Case Study
  Psycho-Oncology 2026 DOI: 10.1002/pon.70394
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• Traumatic Experiences, Psychological Distress and Suicide‐Related Behaviors in Autistic Adults
  Autism Research 2026 DOI: 10.1002/aur.70137
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• Computational signatures of uncertainty are reflected in motor cortex excitatory neurochemistry
  Nature Communications 2025 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-64702-6
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• The educational attainment of autistic individuals and individuals with high autistic traits: A study of 230,000 people in the United Kingdom
  2025 DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7905433/v1
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• Mothers of autistic children: a study of their experiences with child-protection social services, and allegations of fabricated or induced illness
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.10.13.25337881
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• The Placental Steroid Hypothesis of Human Brain Evolution
  Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 2025 DOI: 10.1002/evan.70003
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• The “Tetris effect”: autistic and non-autistic people share an implicit drive for perceptual cohesion
  Molecular Autism 2025 DOI: 10.1186/s13229-025-00654-4
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• Neurochemical markers of uncertainty processing in humans
  2025 DOI: 10.1101/2025.02.19.639013
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• Autistic and transgender/gender diverse people’s experiences of health and healthcare
  Molecular Autism 2025 DOI: 10.1186/s13229-024-00634-0
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• ComBatLS: A location- and scale-preserving method for multi-site image harmonization.
  bioRxiv 2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.21.599875
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• Sex Differences in Human Brain Structure at Birth
  2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.06.20.599872
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• Childhood abuse v. neglect and risk for major psychiatric disorders.
  Psychological Medicine 2024 DOI: 10.1017/S0033291723003471
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• Polygenic scores for autism are associated with neurite density in adults and children from the general population.
  medRxiv 2024 DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.10.24305539
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• Defining key concepts for mental state attribution
  Communications Psychology 2024 DOI: 10.1038/s44271-024-00077-6
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• Genetics of gambling disorder and related phenotypes: The potential uses of polygenic and multifactorial risk models to enable early detection and improve clinical outcomes.
  Journal of Behavioral Addictions 2024 DOI: 10.1556/2006.2023.00075
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• Autistic People's Perinatal Experiences I: A Survey of Pregnancy Experiences
  Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 2024 DOI: 10.1007/S10803-022-05754-1
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