#evolutionarypsychiatry
Please help me find accounts here that are into #EvolutionaryBiology
#EvolutionaryMedicine
#EvolutionaryPsychiatry.
Thanks!
February 3, 2024 at 7:24 PM
@awaisaftab.bsky.social is doing so much to help make psychiatry sensible. The questions he posed about #EvolutionaryPsychiatry helped me to get a better grasp of my own field! See the full version on his substack www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/why-did-ev...
May 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
A fascinating, accessible, and illuminating read. Nesse gives crystal clear explanations and leverages them with emotive personal stories. Makes me wonder what parts of human life evolution isn’t helpful explaining!
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#goodreasonsforbadfeelings #randolphmnesse #evolution #evolutionarypsychiatry
October 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Sexual selection isn't just about looks—it reveals deeper genetic "fitness" indicators, like low mutation load and resistance to parasites. Good genes are advertised through costly displays! #EvolutionaryPsychiatry #SexualSelection
March 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Ever wondered why groups fracture (fission)? Evolution shaped our sensitivity to reciprocity violations, free-riding, and resource competition, driving group splits across history - as detailed in the following passage. #SocialDynamics #EvolutionaryPsychiatry
March 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Advantages remain **group-oriented** across the literature (i.e., not just this study, folks) reveal our genetics within this genome ARE among the primary reasons we have this lovely pre-frontal cortex that we have today.

#EvolutionaryBiology
#EvolutionaryPsychiatry

Fact, not fiction, folks.

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September 24, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Great new resources for those interested in evolutionary approach to mental diseases. #evolutionarypsychiatry www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
ISEMPH 2024 Evolutionary Psychiatry Pre-meeting - YouTube
A pre-meeting was held in collaboration with the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, and preceding its 2024 conference in Durham...
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September 6, 2024 at 8:09 AM
Tonight's wonderful debate about @LBS <a href="http://goodreasons.info" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://goodreasons.info included @RiadhAbed1 @sbaroncohen @cronin_helena Carina Kern, Paul St John-Smith & me thanks to @LondonEvolution &d @rcpsych Debate was great, but interdisciplinary imbibing advanced #evolutionarypsychiatry more
February 15, 2019 at 11:40 PM
Twitter is getting fragile, so let's revisit a thread while it is still available. I avoided the P-word when I first wrote about #EvolutionaryPsychiatry, but I have gradually become convinced that it really does offer a new paradigm for understanding mental disorders.
Starting June 1, I will tweet a chapter each day from my new book <a href="http://goodreasons.info" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://goodreasons.info about how the light of evolutionary biology can dissolve the mists that swirl around mental disorders. Well, some mists for some disorders. @DuttonBooks @hbes2019 @LondonEvolution @ISEMPH
November 19, 2022 at 7:36 PM
Penguin just lowered the price of the Kindle version to $5 in the USA and £5 in the UK! Get it while it is cheap! <a href="http://goodreasons.info" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">http://goodreasons.info @eseb_org @ISEMPH @evmedasu @evmed_ch @hbes2020 @ehbea2020 @APAPsychiatric @AllenFrancesMD @NAMICommunicate @UmEhap #evolutionarypsychiatry
February 26, 2020 at 9:50 PM
Italian translation jut published by @BollatiBoringhieri Enormous interest in #evolutionarypsychiatry in Italy! @FabioZampieri76 @STEFANOPARMIGI1 https://bollatiboringhieri.it/libri/randolph-m-nesse-buone-ragioni-per-stare-male-9788833928661/
February 29, 2020 at 9:40 PM
My new talk on #EvolutionaryPsychiatry is open access thanks to @HSTalks. FAR better than anything I could have created on my own and ready for courses or just watching!
@APAPsychiatric @rcpsych @erika_saunders1 @DalackMd @RiadhAbed1 @ISEMPH @HumBehEvoSoc...
April 26, 2022 at 9:26 AM
2. Like the rest of medicine, #EvolutionaryPsychiatry distinguishes symptoms from diseases. Recognizing anxiety and depression as excesses of useful responses reduces tendencies for patients to view themselves as defective disease victims waiting passively to be cured.
November 21, 2023 at 8:01 PM
My hope for #Evolutionarypsychiatry is that it will provide a nomothetic framework for analyzing idiographic data. For instance, recognizing the situations in which low mood is useful allows understanding an individual's mood in the context of his/her motivational structure. 4/7
May 6, 2024 at 1:08 AM
I do lots of podcasts, but this one should spread the word widely about #EvolutionaryPsychiatry. Modern Wisdom has over 500,000 subscribers, superb production values and great host @ChrisWillx @ISREorg @Got_Anxiety @APApsychiatric @isemph @WorldPsychiatry...
October 29, 2022 at 4:44 PM
My talk on #EvolutionaryPsychiatry is now open access as a part of a series of 50 @HStalks on #EvolutionaryMedicine. https://hstalks.com/playlist/20/evolution-and-medicine/?biosci
@ISEMPH @HumBehEvoSoc @PsychTimes @WPA_Psychiatry @AllenFrancesMD @RiadhAbed1 @mirandarwolpert...
Evolution and Medicine
Multimedia lectures from The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection by world leading experts including Nobel laureates.
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June 5, 2023 at 12:28 AM
#EvolutionaryPsychiatry is not a treatment method, it instead offers a framework for understanding pathology in the context of normal function, like the one physiology offers for the rest of medicine. This is essential for research but it can also improve care in several ways:
November 21, 2023 at 8:01 PM
Podcasts are looking like the best way to get the word out about #EvolutionaryPsychiatry. In 2023 I had the opportunity to talk with 12 postcast/videocast hosts; every one of them asked deep questions that made me think and generated good discussion....
February 3, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Just released, 6 superbly produced short videos on #EvolutionaryPsychiatry with great graphics and music too. The 10 min introduction to natural selection is open access.

@ISEMPH @HumBehEvoSoc @ADAA_Anxiety @UmEhap @eseb_org @sse_evolution...
February 29, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Just arrived in Durham, UK for the two day #EvolutionaryPsychiatry pre-meeting befor #ISEMPH2024.
So eager to see friends and colleagues and take the pulse of this field that is growing fast thanks to efforts by co-organizers @RiadhAbed1 and Paul St John-Smith
August 4, 2024 at 3:51 PM
"The Frontier of #EvolutionaryPsychiatry", Episode 123 on KeepTalking Podcast with Dan Riley–who reads in depth and conducts a great interview. Good production values. @isemph #EPSIG @HumBehEvoSoc @UmEhap @DepressionCntr
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October 4, 2024 at 2:25 PM