Evolutionary Psychiatry
dc.contributor.author | Stein, Dan J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Nesse, Randolph M. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-24T15:17:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-08-24T15:17:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-08 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/177523 | en |
dc.description | This textbook chapter provides an overview of evolutionary approaches to understanding, preventing, and treating mental disorders. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Evolutionary biology is now the foundation for scientific studies of behavior and emotion, but it is only starting to be applied in psychiatry. It asks new questions that provide a framework for integrating otherwise separate perspectives. The first two questions are about the evolutionary history of a trait and how it gives selective advantages. Answers provide evolutionary explanations of behavior and emotions that synergize with explanations that describe mechanisms and ontogeny. A third question asks why natural selection left us with traits that make us vulnerable to disease. In addition to mutations and environmental exposures, evolutionary psychiatry considers mismatch with modern environments, tradeoffs, and traits that increase gene transmission at the cost of host health. Answers to this question encourage a medical approach to aversive emotions as useful responses. Evolutionary psychiatry is not a method of treatment, but the basic science it brings to psychiatry has practical applications for clinical care, research, and public health that can increase psychiatry’s effectiveness and its recognition as a medical specialty. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | Springer International Publishing | en_US |
dc.subject | Evolutionary psychiatry, Evolutionary medicine, emotions, evolution, Mental disorders, Social psychology, Evolutionary biology · Natural selection · Adaptation · Maladaptation · Evolutionary medicine · Evolutionary psychology · Evolutionary psychiatry · Fitness · Emotions · Genetics · Biopsychosocial model · Tinbergen · Ethology | en_US |
dc.title | Evolutionary Psychiatry | en_US |
dc.type | Book chapter | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Psychiatry | |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Psychiatry, Department of | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Psychology, Department of | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/177523/1/Nesse and Stein - 2023 - Evolutionary Psychiatry.pdf | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/978-3-030-42825-9_71-1 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://dx.doi.org/10.7302/8077 | |
dc.identifier.source | Tasman's Psychiatry | en_US |
dc.description.mapping | 7777ddbb-18db-4464-8a0e-24105b22efe6 | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-1768-0949 | en_US |
dc.description.filedescription | Description of Nesse and Stein - 2023 - Evolutionary Psychiatry.pdf : Main chapter | |
dc.description.depositor | SELF | en_US |
dc.identifier.name-orcid | Nesse, Randolph; 0000-0003-1768-0949 | en_US |
dc.working.doi | 10.7302/8077 | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Psychiatry, Department of |
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