News and Events

• Oct 2011
  The face of emotions: Darwin, computers and autism

  An online recreation of Charles Darwin’s famous experiment on the expression of emotion is being launched at Cambridge University’s Festival of Ideas tomorrow (22nd).

  

• Jul 2011
  Biomarker for autism discovered

  Research provides opportunity for identifying genes linked to autism.

  

• Jun 2011
  Diagnosed autism is more common in an IT-rich region

  Research provides important insight into ‘systemizing’ theory of autism.

  

• Feb 2011
  Extra testosterone reduces your empathy

  A new study from Utrecht and Cambridge Universities has for the first time found that an administration of testosterone under the tongue in volunteers negatively affects a person’s ability to ‘mind read’, an indication of empathy. The findings are published this week in the journal Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences.

  

• Jan 2011
  Cambridge Ideas – The Emotional Computer

  Cambridge University film provides a glimpse of how robots and humans could interact in the future

  

• Jan 2009
  Research links testosterone levels to autistic traits

  Research at Cambridge University’s Autism Research Centre (ARC) has found that exposure to high levels of testosterone in the womb is related to the development of autistic traits.