TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burns,Jonathan
TI  - The descent of madness: evolutionary origins of psychosis and the social brain 
SN  - 9781583917435 (pbk.) :
AV  - RC512 .B87 2007
U1  - 616.89 BUR 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Psychoses
KW  - Etiology
KW  - Mental illness
KW  - Diagnosis
KW  - Evolution
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Clinical psychology
KW  - thema
KW  - Psychotherapy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 1.Introduction -- 2.A history and pre-history of madness -- 3.Evolutionary principles of the origins of psychosis -- 4.Evolutionary genetics of psychosis -- 5.A social brain for a social world -- 6.The evolution of the social brain -- 7.Schizophrenia and the social brain -- 8.The dysconnectivity huypothesis of schizophrenia -- 10.The costly legacy of an evolved social brain
N2  - Drawing on evidence from across the behavioural and natural sciences, this book advances a radical new hypothesis: that madness exists as a costly consequence of the evolution of a sophisticated social brain in Homo sapiens
ER  -