Extra Testosterone and Reduced Empathy

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Extra Testosterone and Reduced Empathy
TS-Si News Service   
Thursday, 10 February 2011 09:00


http://ts-si.org/healthcare/28878-extra-testosterone-and-reduced-empathy


A new study for the first time has provided hard data on how administering testosterone under the tongue (sublingually) negatively affects an important marker for empathy.

In addition, the effects of testosterone (or androgen) administration are predicted by a fetal marker of prenatal testosterone, the 2D:4D ratio. The study confirms earlier rodent research that shows that testosterone in early brain development influences the structures that can organize the activation of the hormone in later life. The research results also have important implications for the androgen theory of autism.