article_snippet.sent: self-help books — but This is also shown to be true through science.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, an expert on the brain who I visited at Cambridge University, has done a lot of pioneering work on this.
article_snippet.sent: As you can imagine, this is a controversial area of science.
article_snippet.sent: Progesterone is best known as a female hormone, involved in the menstrual cycle and pregnancy, but Progesterone is also important for the development of neurones — the cells that carry messages in the brain.
article_snippet.sent: Animal studies and a few small human trials have shown that giving progesterone soon after suffering a brain injury improves survival and recovery.