Christopher Robert Badcock (born 1946) is a British sociologist and Emeritus Reader in Sociology at the London School of Economics, from which he retired in 2011. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1973 under the supervision of Ernest Gellner. His thesis, and his early work thereafter, focused on the work of Claude Levi-Strauss.[1] He served as a lecturer in sociology at Polytechnic of the South Bank from 1969 to 1973, and was on the faculty in the Sociology Department at the London School of Economics from 1974 until his retirement.[2] He is known for working with Bernard Crespi to develop the imprinted brain hypothesis, according to which autism results from "a paternal bias in the expression of imprinted genes", whereas psychosis results from a maternal and/or X-chromosome bias in the expression of such genes.[3][4][5]
Christopher Badcock | |
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| Born | Christopher Robert Badcock 1946 (age 77–78) |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | |
| Known for | Imprinted brain hypothesis |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Sociology |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | The methodology of Claude Levi-Strauss and its historical antecedents (1973) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernest Gellner |
References
edit- ^ Husbands, Christopher T. (14 March 2019). Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, 1904–2015: Sound and Fury. Springer. p. 148. ISBN 978-3-319-89450-8.
- ^ Science, London School of Economics and Political. "Christopher Robert Badcock". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
- ^ Badcock, Christopher (June 2011). "The imprinted brain: how genes set the balance between autism and psychosis" (PDF). Epigenomics. 3 (3): 345–359. doi:10.2217/epi.11.19. ISSN 1750-192X. PMID 22122342.
- ^ Crespi, Bernard; Badcock, Christopher (June 2008). "Psychosis and autism as diametrical disorders of the social brain" (PDF). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 31 (3): 241–261, discussion 261–320. doi:10.1017/S0140525X08004214. ISSN 1469-1825. PMID 18578904.
- ^ Carey, Benedict (10 November 2008). "In a Novel Theory of Mental Disorders, Parents' Genes Are in Competition". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
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