Mass murder: Causes, classification, and prevention

JL Knoll - Psychiatric Clinics, 2012 - psych.theclinics.com
Mass murder, the killing of four or more victims at one location within one event, is a rare and
catastrophic phenomenon. 1 The prevalence of firearms, media coverage, and increasing …

Schizophrenia and human self-domestication: an evolutionary linguistics approach

A Benítez-Burraco, L Di Pietro, M Barba… - Brain, behavior and …, 2017 - karger.com
Schizophrenia (SZ) is a pervasive neurodevelopmental disorder that entails social and
cognitive deficits, including marked language problems. Its complex multifactorial …

The oscillopathic nature of language deficits in autism: from genes to language evolution

A Benítez-Burraco, E Murphy - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are pervasive neurodevelopmental disorders involving a
number of deficits to linguistic cognition. The gap between genetics and the pathophysiology …

The intersubjective dimension of schizophrenia

Z Van Duppen - Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 2017 - muse.jhu.edu
The subjective disturbances of schizophrenia have long been established in a coherent
phenomenological theory. The intersubjective dimension of the disorder, however …

Bridging the gap between genes and language deficits in schizophrenia: an oscillopathic approach

E Murphy, A Benítez-Burraco - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Schizophrenia is characterized by marked language deficits, but it is not clear how these
deficits arise from the alteration of genes related to the disease. The goal of this paper is to …

The FOXP2-driven network in developmental disorders and neurodegeneration

F Oswald, P Klöble, A Ruland, D Rosenkranz… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The transcription repressor FOXP2 is a crucial player in nervous system evolution and
development of humans and songbirds. In order to provide an additional insight into its …

Mass murder and the violent paranoid spectrum

JL Knoll IV, JR Meloy - Psychiatric Annals, 2014 - journals.healio.com
Mass murderers who capture media attention often appear to be suffering from psychosis.
However, no research has clearly established that most are psychotic or even suffering from …

[PDF][PDF] The “pseudocommando” mass murderer: part II, the language of revenge

JL Knoll - Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and …, 2010 - scholar.archive.org
In Part I of this article, research on pseudocommandos was reviewed, and the important role
that revenge fantasies play in motivating such persons to commit mass murder-suicide was …

Impaired reading comprehension in schizophrenia: evidence for underlying phonological processing deficits

W Arnott, L Sali, D Copland - Psychiatry research, 2011 - Elsevier
The present study examined reading ability in high functioning people with schizophrenia.
To this end, 16 people with schizophrenia who were living in the community and 12 matched …

Characterising receptive language processing in schizophrenia using word and sentence tasks

EJ Tan, GW Yelland, SL Rossell - Cognitive neuropsychiatry, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction. Language dysfunction is proposed to relate to the speech disturbances in
schizophrenia, which are more commonly referred to as formal thought disorder (FTD) …