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Is Madness an Evolved Signal? Justin Garson on Strategy Versus Dysfunction

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His most recent book is Madness: A Philosophical Exploration , published by Oxford University Press in 2022. You’re also an author, and you’ve written on topics such as aging, genetics, mental representation, biological functions, mechanisms in science, and the concept of information in neuroscience.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

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Within this, some parts of the neurodiversity movement take an uncritical or neutral perspective on the validity of psychiatric diagnoses such as—but not limited to—ASD and ADHD, backed up by unsubstantiated claims about biological and genetic causal factors. This is likely to have a range of unhelpful consequences.