schizophrenia
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Evolution.
autism, canalization, Combined pattern of childhood psycho-behavioral characteristics in patients with schizophrenia: a retrospective study in Japan, corpus callosum, critical comments by important family members, developmental factors, environmental factors, epigenesis, epigenetic, epigenetics, evolution, evolutionary fitness, Evolutionary Psychiatry, feed forward, Haeckel’s law, hippocampal place cells, hippocampi, homeostasis, induseum griseum, lateral longitudinal stria, maladaptation, medial longitudinal stria, mental health, mood disorders, neocortex, ontogeny, paranoid disorders, phenotypic plasticity, phylogeny, plasticity, rank theory of depression, schizophrenia, strands of Lancisi, The influence of phenotypic modifications on evolution: the Baldwin effect and modern perspectives, the Pons test, The role of phenotypic plasticity in driving genetic evolution, WaddingtonMost patients with mental illness do not have relatives with the same condition. Phylogenetically, it may well have been true that social groups were stabilised by depressed members, and that families were stabilised by biddable members who passively accepted distortion: ontogenetically, these possibilities need to be tested, with the mental health of group members and…
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Who was the subject’s general practitioner?When was the subject’s last appointment with his general practitioner?Do the general practice records refer to the subject’s mental state at any time?Is there a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder?Who made the diagnosis?When was the diagnosis made?Where was the diagnosis made?Was there a care plan?Who was the key worker?What was…
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Exploration of ‘hallucinations’.
apperception, autism, cancellation signals, corollary discharge, first-person singular pronouns, From sensation to cognition, hallucinations, illusion, magic, mind’s ear, mind’s eye, occult, perception, Psychology of Music C E Seashore 1938, psychosis, schizophrenia, supernatural, talismanic, thought broadcasting, thought echo, thought insertionVisual hallucinations are due to activation of visual memory circuits by diffuse toxicity. The auditory hallucinations of schizophrenia are not perceptions without stimuli, they are apperceptions without responses, specifically the corollary discharges that normally indicate apperceptive ownership of one’s responses to perception: apperception minus corollary discharge equals perception. Arousal that has been inhibited during childhood…
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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. 