ADHD
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Conversation.
A comparative study on parental language used by parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and typically developing children, acting, ADHD, aggressive mimicry, anxiety carrier state, arousal, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, avoidance, Bill Shankly, biological advantage, bluster, Bryson DeChambeau, child, children, circumlocution, clear the head, CNV, competitiveness, contingent negative variation, conversation, conversational narcissism, conversational turns, deception, Doppler effect, ensonification, errors of judgement, errors of judgment, face mask, flannel, forced sneezing, genetic causes of autism, genetic causes of schizophrenia, Gilbertian mimicry, human host, human parasite, implicature, interview technique, irritability, jitter, loneliness, long-term memory, malfeasance, misrepresentation, mobile phone, monologue, monotonic, monotonicity, mutual regression, Nash equilibrium, networking, nose picking, obsessionality, pets, phonolocation, plausible deniability, pregnant pause, prevarication, pseudo-conversation, regression., rhinotillexis, risks of autism, risks of schizophrenia, Rory McIlroy, seduction, self-reassurance, self-stimulation, sexual promise, shift response, sleep, soliloquy, stimulus-independent thought, support response, the centre of attention, The cortical generators of the contingent negative variation in humans: a study with subdural electrodes, the selfish gene, the sound of her own voice, the sound of his own voice, the sound of one’s own voice, thinking out loud, tit for tat, verbiage, working memoryConversation normally starts with an alerting signal, so as to engage the attention of the intended collocutor. Absence of the alerting signal conveys that this is not going to be a conversation. Conversation normally includes listening pauses, the absence of which indicates that this is not a conversation: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”…
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Schizophrenia.
ADHD, anthropomorphism, aposematic, aposematism, conduct disorder, deimatic, deimatic display, genotype, in vino veritas, life events, Minor Physical Anomalies in Schizophrenia Patients Bipolar Patients and Their Siblings, ontogeny of teaching in humans, oppositional behaviour, phenotype, schizophrenia, the instinct to teachSchizophrenia is the extreme expression of discrepancy between the phenotype and the genotype. Patients with schizophrenia have significantly more minor physical abnormalities than their siblings, which may explain differential parental responses. The instinct to teach may be to create in one’s own image, which distances phenotype from genotype in learners. Supposedly disruptive behaviour in children…
To be or not to be. 