Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2008 - Volume 31, Issue 03  

Authors' Response

The evolutionary social brain: From genes to psychiatric conditions

Bernard Crespia1 and Christopher Badcocka2

a1 Department of Biosciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6, Canada

a2 Department of Sociology, London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom. crespi@sfu.ca C.Badcock@lse.ac.uk http://www.sfu.ca/biology/faculty/crespi/ http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/sociology/whoswho/badcock.htm

Abstract

The commentaries on our target article, “Psychosis and Autism as Diametrical Disorders of the Social Brain,” reflect the multidisciplinary yet highly fragmented state of current studies of human social cognition. Progress in our understanding of the human social brain must come from studies that integrate across diverse analytic levels, using conceptual frameworks grounded in evolutionary biology.