Mental disorders arise from neural and psychological mechanisms that have been built and
shaped by natural selection across our evolutionary history. Looking at psychopathology …

In this chapter we situate developmental psychopathology in an evolutionary perspective,
and demonstrate how the discipline can benefit by embracing modern biological theory. We …

Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine are concerned with medical conditions affecting
brain, mind and behaviour in manifold ways. Traditional approaches have focused on a …

Evolutionary approaches to medicine can shed light on the origins and etiology of disease.
Such an approach may be especially useful in psychiatry, which frequently addresses …

The complete reference of biological bases for psychopathology at any age Developmental
Psychopathology is a four-volume compendium of the most complete and current research …

In this article, I outline a general framework for the evolutionary analysis of mental disorders
based on the concepts of life history theory. I synthesize and extend a large body of work …

OBJECTIVE: To consider the power of principles derived from evolutionary biology to
explain the causes and determinants of some forms of child and adolescent mental …

Psychopathology emerges from the dynamic interplay of physiological and mental
processes and ecological context. It can be seen as a failure of recursive, homeostatic …

Important to the understanding of a particular phenotype is the evolutionary concept of
variation. Without variation, no evolution by natural selection could take place. Mainstream …

Evolutionary Psychiatry was first published in 1996, the second edition followed in 2000.
This ground breaking book challenged the medical model which supplied few effective …