Biological Psychology
THE IMPRINTED BRAIN
How Genes Set the Balance of the Mind Between Autism and Psychosis
Christopher Badcock, Ph.D.
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES The reader will be able to:
• Describe a new theory of mental development and disorder that involves not just the inheritance of genes but their expression
• Describe the influence of poisons, poverty, and pathogens
• Explain how diet influences development
• Describe the conflict between father’s and mother’s genes over the size of the baby
• Describe the roles of visual agnosia and optic ataxia in development
Christopher Badcock, Ph.D., is Reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.