About the now famous theory of the opposistion autism-psychosis, some articles:
http://www.pinniped.net/crespi2008.pdf
This link contains, not only the article presenting these theory, but several articles criticizing it.
Perhpas some of you will be interested in the article "Psychiatric disorders and the social brain:
Distinguishing mentalizing and empathizing" (pg. 39), because it is about an issue that is usually discussed at WP:
Quote:
A promising approach to dissecting the various components of social cognition is to distinguish the capacity to represent other people’s intentions and beliefs (referred to as theory of mind or mentalizing) and the capacity to share the feelings of others (referred to as empathy)
(...)
[S]chizophrenia is not the best model to illustrate the necessity to distinguish between cognitive and affective components of social cognition. In this regard, psychopathy and Williams syndrome are much better.
(...)
In short, the social brain dysfunctions observed in psychopathy and WS appear to be distinct
and selective. Individuals with psychopathy show a profound empathic dysfunction but no indications of impairment with theory of mind. In contrast, individuals with WS show
abnormally high levels of empathy combined with a defective theory of mind
09 Nov 2009, 11:15 am
