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Brain variation and story telling?

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Sun, 11/16/2008 - 2:27pm.

Yep, the whole section is worth looking at. Including an article about some new work suggesting that the autistic spectrum - "a fascination with objects, patterns, mechanical systems, at the expense of social development" is at one end of a continuim of brain variations with "the psychotic spectrum ... hypersensitivity to mood, their own and others' ... schizophrenia ... as well as mood problems" at the other. See In a novel theory of mental disorders, parents' genes are in competition. Whether the genetics plays out as suggested or not, there is an interesting new approach to characterizing brain variation here. Different styles of story telling?

For more on genetics, see the 7 November 2008 issue of Science, a special issue on Genes and Behavior, including a review on Genes and Social Behavior.

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