Badcock, Christopher
Dr Christopher Badcock
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Experience keywords:
psychotic spectrum disorders; genetic conflict; schizophrenia; autism; evolutionary psychiatry; evolution and social behaviour; psychotic spectrum; evolution; evolutionary psychology; psychosis; autism spectrum disorders; autism spectrum; genetics; imprinted brain theory; imprinted genes
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Dr Badcock’s main areas of research are the imprinted brain theory: genetic conflict between imprinted and X chromosome genes as the cause and explanation of mental illnesses, and especially autism and psychosis; autism and its social implications; and evolutionary psychology and psychiatry in general.
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Sectors and industries to which research relates:
Healthcare
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Languages: French [Spoken: Basic, Written: Fluent]; Italian [Spoken: Basic, Written: Basic]
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Media experience:
Has written for mainstream press; Radio; TV
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The following references are sourced from LSE Research Online|. References that are linked lead to the full text.
Badcock, Christopher and Crespi, Bernard (2008) Battle of the sexes may set the brain. Nature, 454 pp. 1054-1055. ISSN 0028-0836 Crespi, Bernard and Badcock, Christopher (2008) Psychosis and autism as diametrical disorders of the social brain. Behavioral and brain sciences, 31 (3). pp. 241-260. ISSN 0140-525X Badcock, Christopher (2008) Selfish genes and sanity. The Great Debate Website, Badcock, Christopher (2008) Nature or nurture? Genes or society? Autism or psychosis?
A new theory resolves some long-standing contradictions in explaining mental illness. Sociology research news: Newsletter of the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Sociology Department, 5 (3). pp. 2-4. Badcock, Christopher (2007) An evolutionary theory of mind and of mental illness : genetic conflict and the mentalistic continuum. In: Krebs, D. and Crawford, C.B., (eds.) Foundations of evolutionary psychology : ideas, issues and applications. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc., London, UK. Badcock, Christopher (2006) Sociobiology. In: Bryant, Clifton and Peck, Dennis, (eds.) 21st Century Sociology : A Reference Handbook. Sage Publications, London, UK, pp. 295-305. ISBN 9781412916080 Badcock, Christopher and Crespi, Bernard (2006) Imbalanced genomic imprinting in brain development: an evolutionary basis for the etiology of autism. Journal of evolutionary biology, 19 (4). pp. 1007-1032. ISSN 1420-9101 Badcock, Christopher (2004) The morality of markets: taxation as a prisoner's dilemma. In: O'Keeffe, Dennis, (ed.) Economy and virtue: essays on the theme of markets and morality. Institute of Economic Affairs, London, pp. 52-67. ISBN 0255365047 Badcock, Christopher (2004) Emotion versus reason as a genetic conflict. In: Evans, D. and Cruse, P., (eds.) Emotion, Evolution, and Rationality. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 207-222. Badcock, Christopher (2004) Mentalism and mechanism: the twin modes of human cognition. In: Crawford, Charles B and Salmon, Catherine A, (eds.) Evolutionary Psychology, Public Policy and Personal Decisions. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, N.J., pp. 99-116. ISBN 9780805843774 Badcock, Christopher (2003) Eugenics. In: Christensen, Karen and Levinson, David, (eds.) Encyclopedia of community: from the village to the virtual world. Berkshire Publishing Group, Great Barrington, MA, pp. 469-470. ISBN 0761925988 Badcock, Christopher (2003) "Incest", "The Libido Theory", "Sociobiology & Psychoanalysis". In: Erwin, Edward, (ed.) The Freud Encyclopedia. Routledge, pp. 273-275. Badcock, Christopher (2003) Eugenics. In: Christensen, Karen and Levinson, David, (eds.) Encyclopedia of community: from the village to the virtual world. Sage Publications, Thousands Oaks, Calif. Badcock, Christopher (2001) Genetic conflict and Freudian psychology. Psychology review, 7 (3). pp. 16-19. ISSN 1750-3469 Badcock, Christopher (2000) Evolutionary psychology: a critical introduction. Polity Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780745622064 Badcock, Christopher (1999) Psychodarwinismus: Die Synthese von Darwin und Freud. Carl Hanser, Munich, Germany. ISBN 3446175008
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