Biology 3436F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Autism Spectrum, Genomic Imprinting, Growth Factor
30 Nov 2017
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Psychotic and autism spectrum used to be considered separate things until recently. It(cid:859)s possible to get genetic conflict amongst genes themselves. One author noticed that nominal symptoms that go with autism and psychosis are opposite. And opposite ends of that spectrum are under or over development hyper or hypo expression of that trait. Psychotic/skitz = over development of social brain, autism is under. Taken two conditions and put them on ends of continuum in functional sense. Currency of continuum is social brain ability to operate in a social environment. Can see some symptoms or conditions that might typify an autistic person. Lots of phenotypes in there asoociate with autism. Under development of social brain social function of brain. Bernie crespi sfu: autism and skitz linked to faults in same genes. Like an individual has developmental switch that can crank social brain up so they become skitz, or down for autism: what controls this volume dial.
