Mirror Neuron Function
Apr. 28th, 2022 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moonagestardust"In contrast with this view, other investigators, based on higher than normal empathizing or mirroring abilities found to occur in schizophrenia (Abu-Akel and Bailey, 2000; Quintana et al., 2001), have suggested that intact ToM or ability to empathize is necessary for the development of psychosis (Walston et al., 2000). In a recent fMRI study by Quintana et al. (2001), patients with schizophrenia exhibited greater activation than healthy comparison participants in the face movement areas of the motor and pre-motor cortex when exposed to facial expressions in contrast to color circles."
If people with autism do not have an "intact ToM," and this is actually a prerequisite for the onset of psychosis, then, people with autism can never become psychotic. If they still become psychotic, this theory is false.
It is claimed that SZ and autism can co-occur, but I am skeptical about this.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3545445/
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If people with autism do not have an "intact ToM," and this is actually a prerequisite for the onset of psychosis, then, people with autism can never become psychotic. If they still become psychotic, this theory is false.
It is claimed that SZ and autism can co-occur, but I am skeptical about this.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3545445/
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