The NY Times has an accessible summary of the Crespi/Badcock theory that schizophrenia and autism are opposite poles of the competition between maternal and paternal genomes, based on work by Trivers and Haig. In a Novel Theory of Mental Disorders, Parents’ Genes Are...
Ten years ago, most of us paying attention were exhilarated about the prospects for psychiatric genetics. Heritability is high for many disorders-80% of the variation in vulnerability to bipolar disorder and schizophrenia can be attributed to genetic variations. We...
