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Psychosis and autism as two developmental windows on a disordered social brain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 June 2008

Sophie van Rijn ,
Hanna Swaab  and
André Aleman
Sophie van Rijn
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Studies, Centre for the Study of Developmental Disorders, Leiden University, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands
Hanna Swaab
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Child and Adolescent Studies, Centre for the Study of Developmental Disorders, Leiden University, 2333 AK Leiden, The Netherlands
André Aleman
Affiliation:
BCN Neuroimaging Center, University of Gröningen, 9713 AW Gröningen, The [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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Abstract

With regard to social-cognitive deficits in autism and psychosis, Crespi & Badcock's (C&B's) theory does not incorporate the developmental context of the disorders. We propose that there is significant overlap in social-cognitive impairments, but that the exact manifestation of social-cognitive deficits is highly dependent on the dynamics of cognitive development and hence different in autism as compared to psychosis.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 31 , Issue 3 , June 2008 , pp. 280 - 281
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

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