Psychiatry has a new theory of genes and behavior: Genetic tug-of-war determines brain development

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 month 3 weeks (www.nytimes.com)

In what the New York Times calls a "creative" interpretation of recent findings about the nature of DNA, two scientists, biologist Bernard Crespi of Fraser University and sociologist Christopher Badcock of the London school of economics, have come up with a new idea of how mental disorders develop and how genes fit into the whole thing:

"Their idea is, in broad outline, straightforward. Dr. Crespi and Dr. Badcock propose that an evolutionary tug of war between genes from the father’s sperm and the mother’s egg can, in effect, tip brain development in one of two ways

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A unified genetic theory for sporadic and inherited autism

bianjie submitted, created time 1 year 5 months (www.pnas.org)

Autism is among the most clearly genetically determined of all cognitive-developmental disorders, with males affected more often than females.

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