Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Table of Contents - 2004 - Volume 27, Issue 06  


Short Communication

Are the DTI results positive evidence for George Bernard Shaw's view?

Rolf Verleger a1 and Rebekka Lencer a2
a1 Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, D 23538 Lübeck, Germany rolf.verleger@neuro.uni-luebeck.de www.neuro.uni-Luebeck.de
a2 Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Lübeck, D 23538 Lübeck, Germany lencer.r@psychiatry.uni-luebeck.de www.psychiatry.uni-Luebeck.de

Abstract

We discuss how Burns' conception may be further extended to integrate research on eye movement abnormalities, but then point to a contradiction between Burns' conception of schizophrenia as the genetic price for human social life and the diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) data, which constitute his central piece of evidence.