24. Schizophrenia

Stanford University.

Variety of announcements, tomorrow, office hours

are shifted because at 4:30, there's

a really interesting lecture over at Clark.

This guy is one of the experts on the whole notion

that there are brain metabolic abnormalities

in sociopathic humans, violent criminals.

He's got the distinction of having the world's only

portable MRI.

He has a big old Winnebago with an MRI machine.

And he drives all around the country

from one maximum security prison to another,

trying to look at aspects of frontal cortical dysfunction

in extremely violent individuals.

I have no idea if he's a good lecturer or not,

the material is going to be really interesting.

So that's something that probably should

be caught Friday, again, is not going

to be videotape, but just audiotape

for a number of reasons.

Finally, over next year, I will be doing,

if anyone is interested, some directed readings

with people that are-- that will be essentially

more of an exploration of some of the topics in the course

here.

So if you are interested, do not send me anything whatsoever

until it's the summer.

At that point, CV, transcript, anything I need to know,

but it will be posted on the coursework,

so as to more details about it.

So we pick up with the homestretch here of language.

And what we got to just on the edge of two days ago

is the now begin to look at the genetics of language use.

In general, there's the usual types of techniques

for behavior genetics.

The first is looking for covariance

of certain language abnormalities

in certain families.

And the evidence for that is clear with Williams syndrome,