… same genes causing madness are responsible for the evolution of our highly social brain.
Jonathan Burns’ novel Darwinian analysis of the importance of psychosis for human survival …

… both the “social brain” and schizophrenia emerged gradually from an evolutionary process
… cognition (eg, language) and the psychoses have a base in genes humans share with the …

… Burns presents interesting supportive evidence to illustrate how the social brain evolved
during the course of hominid evolution, through a process of brain reorganization and …

… Like Farley (1976), I propose another explanation for the evolutionary origins of psychosis:
that madness represents a costly and disadvantageous by-product of human …

… origins of this disorder. Schizophrenia is a disorder of the social brain, and it exists as a costly
trade-off in the evolution … The first is that other species do not have a capacity for psychosis …

… ) for recognising faces and responding to social signals. The social brain, according to
Brothers, includes the amygdala, the orbito-frontal cortex (for organising social behaviour) and the …

… evolution, development and neurobiology of the social brain - the anatomical and functional
substrate for adaptive social … , which manifest as psychopathologies such as psychosis. This …

… And so, I argue below, are the main disorders of the social brain. But to consider this, we
first need some tools with which to dissect the human brain and language, and to uncover the …

… Evolutionary Adaptedness, or EEA) exert a detrimental effect on the development and normal
functioning of the social brain, … the development of non-affective psychosis. In other words, …

… The perspective we adopt in this chapter is to emphasize that the basic building blocks of
the human brain are evolutionarily conserved, suggesting that the principles and mechanisms …