FRONT COVER; The Imprinted Brain How Genes Set the Balance Between Autism and Psychosis; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 Autism and Its Compensations; Autism, schizophrenia, and Asperger's syndrome; Savants and savantism; People people and things people; Mechanistic or systemizing?; Chapter 2 Deficits in Mind; Not seeing the wood for the trees; Mind-blindness; Mentalism; From attention to intention; Chapter 3 From Gaze to Grandeur; Delusions of gaze; The why and how of passion and persecution; Conspiracies and magic; The sense of self in ASD and psychosis |
Chapter 4 Cancers of the MindMemory, self-deception, and candour; Hyper-mentalism; Magic and religion; Mental metastasis; Chapter 5 The Battle of the Sexes in the Brain; Strange inheritance; The extreme male brain; Genomic imprinting; Imprinting and the brain; Mother's baby-father's? Maybe!; Chapter 6 Sex and Psychosis; The X in psychosis; Psychosis, poverty, and pathogens; Handedness, belief, and the brain; Paranoia and homosexuality; ASD, PSD, and normality; Chapter 7 Beyond the Balanced Brain; The cognitive configuration of genius; The |