The imprinted brain [[electronic resource] ] : how genes set the balance between autism and psychosis / / Christopher Badcock |
Autore | Badcock C. R |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
Disciplina |
616.89/042
616.89042 |
Soggetto topico |
Autism - Genetic aspects
Psychoses - Genetic aspects Genomic imprinting |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-29750-3
9786612297502 1-84642-950-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 genius of detective fiction; Psychotic savants The case of FreudTherapeutic implications of the imprinted brain theory; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX; back cover |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455301303321 |
Badcock C. R | ||
Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The imprinted brain [[electronic resource] ] : how genes set the balance between autism and psychosis / / Christopher Badcock |
Autore | Badcock C. R |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
Disciplina |
616.89/042
616.89042 |
Soggetto topico |
Autism - Genetic aspects
Psychoses - Genetic aspects Genomic imprinting |
ISBN |
1-282-29750-3
9786612297502 1-84642-950-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
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 genius of detective fiction; Psychotic savants The case of FreudTherapeutic implications of the imprinted brain theory; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX; back cover |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778470503321 |
Badcock C. R | ||
Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, c2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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