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I wrote an accessible overview of the rich history, current landscape, and future potential of psychiatric genetics: drive.google.com/file/d/1sMd2ep… 🧬🧠

In 2015 researchers published a study that looked at over one million children born in Sweden from 1993 to 2002.

In that time the number of children diagnosed with autism increased significantly but the number of children who actually displayed symptoms remained stable.

They…

I'm excited to share that I've successfully defended my PhD 🥳 Deepest thanks to my advisor Adrian Jaeggi, committee members Erik Postma & Andrea Migliano, and external reviewer Joel McGlothlin, as well as to the wonderful family, friends and colleagues who joined in support.

Martin Brune recently presented in our WPA Evolutionary Psychiatry section webinar!

The title was 'Human Brain Evolution - vulnerability to neuropsychiatric disease by design?'

Available now on YouTube
youtu.be/h0tAH99r9cw

Evolutionary psychology does make a fun read

'Other potential benefits to short-term mating in women, such as obtaining high-quality fish'

I think this last point is especially important. Pointing to the Inuit as a model of how non-Inuit should eat ignores the crucial fact that their physiologies have adapted to their exceptional diet, which potentially includes mechanisms for dealing with otherwise harmful effects.

Check out the latest addition to our YouTube channel a lecture by Nikhil Chaudhary , assistant prof at Cambridge Uni speaking on Mismatch and Mental Disorder with a focus on his work with hunter gatherers in the Congo youtu.be/YEBSIzXn2dY Derek Tracy C A Soper Mohammed J Abbas

An excellent comprehensive & accessible introduction to key principles behind evolutionary psychiatry and evolutionary medicine!

APA rejecting the hybrid model of personality disorders by the DSM-5 work group and putting it in Section III, “Emerging Measures and Models”

Still time to register for the free webinar on Evolutionary Perspectives on Neuropsychiatric Disorders by Prof Martin Brune (Germany). This is the last in this series of WPA EP Section webinars uzh.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Henry O'Connell Derek Tracy Adam Hunt Muzaffer Kaser 💙

Super important study for evolutionary psychiatry! Andrew found evidence of the intuition we've long had in the field, that adaptive explanations lend hope and reduce stigma. Great work!

The next free webinar in the WPA Evolutionary Psychiatry Section will be on 29 June 4pm BST by Prof Martin Brune titled Brain Evolution and Neuropsychiatric disorders here is the registration link uzh.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Derek Tracy Muzaffer Kaser 💙 Mohammed J Abbas Henry O'Connell

My talk on #EvolutionaryPsychiatry is now open access as a part of a series of 50 @HStalks on #EvolutionaryMedicine . hstalks.com/playlist/20/ev…
ISEMPH HBES Psychiatric Times World Psychiatric Association (WPA) wpanet.org Allen Frances Riadh Abed Prof Miranda Wolpert
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New post by me Our World in Data!

How do researchers study the prevalence of mental illnesses worldwide? What are the limitations with these estimates?

Thread.
ourworldindata.org/how-do-researc…

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Here is a link to a WPA free webinar as part of the Section for Evolutionary Psychiatry series titled ‘Hunter Gatherers, Mismatch and Mental Disorder’ by Nikhil Chaudhary Asst Prof Cambridge Uni on Thursday 25 May at 4pm BST Adam Hunt Henry O'Connell
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'Evolutionary psychiatry still best way to understand normal & abnormal behavior' Allen Frances
But most psychiatrists have never heard of it. That is changing fast. Here is a thread summarizing the articles just published in World Psychiatry. twitter.com/i/status/16566…

Randy's new special article in World Psychiatry is the PERFECT single paper introduction to evolutionary psychiatry as it stands today

'Evolutionary psychiatry: Foundations, progress and challenges' was published today in World Psychiatry. It encourages psychiatry to find its missing foundation in evolutionary biology but discourages reckless speculation. ISEMPH HBES
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