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Schizophrenics smoke so often that some researchers believe they have some kind of nicotine deficiency autists have unusually low smoking rates. Autists have a smaller-than-normal corpus callosum schizophrenics have a larger-than-normal one. Many of the genes that increase risk of autism decrease risk of schizophrenia, and vice versa. There’s been a lot of discussion over whether schizophrenia is somehow the “opposite” of autism. One interesting thing I took from Evolutionary Psychopathology was a better understanding of the diametrical theory of the social brain.
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