Autism & schizofreni manligt resp. kvinnligt på en skala?
Som jag bloggat om tidigare (Teori: Autism & Schizofreni motpoler i kamp mellan könens gener)
så har ett nytt teroribygge kommit som menar att en del mentalsjukdomar och mentala tillstånd är mosatsliknande, och beror på en dragkamp mellan manligt och kvinnligt. I Edge magazine ställer man upp följande tabell:
| Autism/Asperger's syndrome | Psychosis/Paranoid schizophrenia |
| gaze-monitoring deficits | delusions of being watched/spied on |
| apparent deafness/insensitivity to voices | hallucination of and hyper-sensitivity to voices |
| deficits in interpreting others' intentions | erotomania/delusions of persecution |
| deficits in appreciating shared-attention/groups | delusions of conspiracy |
| theory of mind deficits | magical ideation/delusions of reference |
| deficit in sense of personal agency/episodic memory | megalomania/delusions of grandeur |
| literalness/inability to deceive | delusional self-deception |
| pathological single-mindedness | pathological ambivalence |
| early onset | late onset |
Mental disorders can be located along a dimension of mentalism (aka 'theory-ofmind,' 'folk-psychology' or 'people skills') defined as our evolved ability to comprehend others' actions and behaviour in purely mental terms (such as intention, belief, desire, emotion etc.). Autistics, notoriously, are poor where mentalistic skills like inferring intention or understanding false belief are concerned. ASDs therefore belong on the hypo-mentalistic side of the continuum. However, what we would now term psychotic spectrum disorders (PSDs) can be typified as hyper-mentalistic: paranoid schizophrenics, for example, symptomatically over-interpret intention
Läs mer: Edge: THE IMPRINTED BRAIN THEORY By Christopher Badcock