03402nam 2200637Ia 450 991080745770332120240501081906.01-282-29750-397866122975021-84642-950-1(CKB)1000000000799774(EBL)465780(OCoLC)459731971(SSID)ssj0000177313(PQKBManifestationID)11155705(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177313(PQKBWorkID)10217932(PQKB)11551436(MiAaPQ)EBC465780(Au-PeEL)EBL465780(CaPaEBR)ebr10331367(CaONFJC)MIL229750(EXLCZ)99100000000079977420081208d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe imprinted brain how genes set the balance between autism and psychosis /Christopher Badcock1st ed.Philadelphia Jessica Kingsley Publishersc20091 online resource (260 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-84905-023-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 psychosisChapter 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 genius of detective fiction; Psychotic savantsThe case of FreudTherapeutic implications of the imprinted brain theory; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX; back coverBadcock sets out a radical new theory of the mind based on the recent discovery of genomic imprinting. He uses psychiatric case material to show how many of the symptoms of psychosis can be shown to be the mental mirror-images of those of autism. This new theory casts intriguing new light on topics such as the nature of genius.AutismGenetic aspectsPsychosesGenetic aspectsGenomic imprintingAutismGenetic aspects.PsychosesGenetic aspects.Genomic imprinting.616.89/042616.89042Badcock C. R695793MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807457703321The imprinted brain4026414UNINA