The imprinted brain
Subtitle: how genes set the balance of the mind between autism and psychosis
By: Christopher Badcock.
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781849050234
Subjects: Autism -- Genetic aspects; Psychoses -- Genetic aspects; Genomic imprinting
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Autism and its compensations; title: Autism, schizophrenia, and Asperger's syndrome; title: Savants and savantism; title: People people and things people mechanistic or systemizing?; title: Deficits in mind; title: Not seeing the wood for the trees; title: Mind-blindness; title: Mentalism; title: From attention to intention; title: From gaze to grandeur; title: Delusions of gaze; title: The why and how of passion and persecution; title: Conspiracies and magic; title: The sense of self in ASD and psychosis; title: Cancers of the mind; title: Memory, self-deception and candour; title: Hyper-mentalism; title: Magic and religion; title: Mental metastasis; title: The battle of the sexes in the brain; title: Strange inheritance; title: The extreme male brain; title: Selfish genius; title: The paternal and maternal brains; title: Mother's baby'father's? maybe!; title: Sex and psychosis; title: The x in psychosis; title: Psychosis, poverty, and pathogens; title: Handedness, belief, and the brain; title: Paranoia and homosexuality; title: Asd, psd, and normality; title: Genius, madness, and psychotherapy; title: The cognitive configuration of genius; title: The genius of detective fiction; title: Psychotic savants; title: The case of freud; title: Beyond the talking cure.