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Evolutionary-developmental modeling of neurodiversity and psychopathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

D. K. Oller
D. K. Oller*
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School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, the University of Memphis, Community Health Building, Memphis, TN 38152. koller@memphis.eduhttps://umwa.memphis.edu/fcv/viewprofile.php?uuid=koller
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Abstract

Modeling the extremes of mental/emotional conditions requires explicit accounts of evolutionary-developmental sources of human neurodiversity, not merely psychopathology. The target article's approach could be improved by incorporation of a hierarchical scheme wherein mental/emotional infrastructure interacts across differentiated layers of function. The notion of “symptom networks” thus calls for differentiation into hierarchically interacting components of mental/emotional evolution and development.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e19
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