Uta Frith has made a major contribution to our understanding of developmental disorders, especially autism and dyslexia. She has studied the cognitive and neurobiological bases of both disorders and demonstrated distinctive impairments in social cognition and central coherence in autism, and in phonological processing in dyslexia. In this enterprise she has encouraged psychologists to work in a...

BACKGROUND Frith & Done (1988) have proposed that the experience of alien control symptoms in schizophrenia is related to a failure by such individuals to monitor effectively their own willed intentions, actions and thoughts. METHOD To examine this hypothesis, a heterogeneous group of 35 patients, all carrying a DSM-III-R diagnosis of schizophrenia (or schizophreniform psychosis) and 24 non-p...

Early-modern improvement writers thought that most of the land within royal forests was not exploited to its full potential and argued that conversion to cultivation would render that land more productive and its inhabitants more industrious.1 During the first four decades of the seventeenth century various improvement projects were thrust upon the community at Duffield (Derbyshire), culminatin...

the images of muslims in media, literature and politics have been mostly black and white portrayals of a people alien to modernity, technology, civilization and progress. since the end of the cold war and the onset of deadly terrorist attacks in different areas of the world, especially in the united states, these representations show a palpable difference: muslims are predominantly represented ...

Search for evidence of trend slow-down in the long-term TOMS/SBUV total ozone data record: the importance of instrument drift uncertainty and fingerprint detection R. S. Stolarski and S. Frith NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Lanham, MD 20706, USA Received: 23 January 2006 – Accepted: 28 February 2006 – Published: 16 May 2006 Cor...

Methods.The theoretical approachesto delusions proposedby Frith and colleagues (` theory of mind’ de®cits), Garety and colleagues (multi-factorial, but involving probabilistic reasoning biases) and Bentall and colleagues (attributional style and self-discrepancies) are summarised. The ®ndings of empirical papers directly relevant to these proposals are critically reviewed. These papers were ide...