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Some ethological perspectives on the fitness consequences and social emotional symptoms of schizophrenia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

Glenn E. Weisfeld
Glenn E. Weisfeld*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI48202
*
weisfeld@sun.science.wayne.edu
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Abstract:

Schizophrenia may not have reduced reproductive success in ancestral times as much as it does today, so explaining how genes for it evolved is more understandable given this prehistoric perspective. Ethological analysis of schizophrenia – understanding how basic emotional behaviors, such as dominance striving, are affected by the condition – might prove useful for comprehending and treating its social emotional symptoms.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 27 , Issue 6 , December 2004 , pp. 867
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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