Descent of Madness - Evolutionary Origins of Psychosis and the Social Brain

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Burns is chief specialist psychiatrist at the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine. His main areas of research include psychotic illnesses, human brain evolution and evolutionary origins of psychosis. Zusammenfassung This book advances a radical new hypothesis: that madness exists as a costly consequence of the evolution of a sophisticated social brain in Homo sapiens. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. A History and Prehistory of Madness. Evolutionary Principles of the Origins of Psychosis. Evolutionary Genetics of Psychosis. A Social Brain for a Social World. The Evolution of the Social Brain. Schizophrenia and the Social Brain. The Dysconnectivity Hypothesis of Schizophrenia. Evolutionary Ontogeny of Schizophrenia. The Costly Legacy of an Evolved Social Brain.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Burns, Burns Jonathan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.01.2007
• EAN: 9781583917428
• ISBN: 978-1-58391-742-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Mental Health, Psychotherapy, Behaviourism, Behavioural theory, Sociology and anthropology