title: Schizophrenia as a consequence of brain evolution.
abstract: Connectionist integration of central nervous system function may have proceeded by a process of biological trial and error throughout brain evolution. As existing structures enlarged, and as new elements of brain function were added, misconnectionist variants could arise. This might account for a number of developmental syndromes in the human brain including schizophrenia. Ultimately, these would derive from aspects of hominid brain evolution and its vertebrate ancestry.
authors.affiliation: p.l.randall@tassie.net.au
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Randall
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000254:growth & development / Q000503:physiopathology; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D015186:Hominidae; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000254:growth & development / Q000503:physiopathology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D014714:Vertebrates