Psychology Today

Gulliver’s Travels can be read as an autistic’s satire on a society into which he does not fit: neither physically nor mentally.

Twenty years after it was first published, the diametric model can be seen as a striking co-discovery like so many others in the history of science.

Many believe epigenetics makes inheritance of acquired traits possible, but the example of imprinted genes on chromosome 15 provides a better explanation of innate musical ability.

Sándor Szathmári’s satirical novel, Voyage to Kazohinia, is based on an implicit insight into the diametric model of mental illness.

One of the best-understood epigenetic mechanisms—genomic imprinting—explains much about both sleep and the brain.

A new age of neuroscientific literacy is beginning in the classroom.

The imprinted brain theory links brain growth to autism, and a new study confirms the association.

Boys born seeming to be girls and socialised as such revert to male after puberty in ~90% of cases, providing an acid test of nature versus nurture.

Although both autism and schizophrenia feature symptomatic communication difficulties, genetic profiling reveals them to be opposites as proposed by the diametric model.

Maternal BMI is a simplistic measure—particularly when related to the complex issue of the cause of autism.

New research into the sense of personal space.

The first study to assess the expression of autistic and schizotypal traits in adults with bipolar disorder confirms counter-intuitive predictions of the diametric model.

The biggest and most comprehensive study of the effects of parental age on offspring mental illness confirms counter-intuitive predictions of the imprinted brain theory.

Proposed self-domestication of our species raises the issue of who the domesticators were. Insights of the imprinted brain theory argue they were ancestral mothers.