"hypo-mentalizing" and schizophrenia with "hyper-mentalizing"; that is, that people in each group should have radically different impairments in mentalizing. This is a core component of the imprinted brain hypothesis, and one of the fundamental assumptions involved. However, meta-analysis of mentalizing skills in autism and schizophrenia does not support this claim. Rather, both conditions appear to be associated with similar mentalizing impairments that share common processing deficits. See also Causes of autism Conditions comorbid to autism spectrum disorders Multiple complex developmental disorder References Evolutionary psychology Neuroscience of schizophrenia Causes of autism