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Brain sex

Are men and women's brains really different?

The world's largest study of sex differences in the brain has been conducted by Cambridge University. It asked 700,000 people to fill out questionnaires. It found women are more empathetic and men are more systems based. Professor Simon Baron Cohen is director of the Autism Research Centre at Cambridge.

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