Christopher Badcock, Ph.D.

Christopher Robert Badcock Ph.D. is Reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics. He was Lecturer in Sociology at Polytechnic of the South Bank from 1969-73, and was appointed to the staff of the LSE Sociology Department in 1974. His current research is devoted to elaborating the imprinted brain theory which he developed along with Bernard Crespi. The theory seeks to explain brain evolution, the mind, and mental illness in terms of genetic conflict. His book on the subject is The Imprinted Brain: How genes set the balance between autism and psychosis.

His PT blog is The Imprinted Brain.