Randy Nesse
@randynesse
A founder of the field of evolutionary medicine, now encouraging psychiatry to find its missing foundation in evolutionary biology.
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https://www.randolphnesse.com 31-03-2009 00:17:10
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Thanks to display nom de plume. This video is now featured on the Wikipedia site on bubble net feeding. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble-ne…
Dan Stein and I spent a year trying to build a better nosology on an evolutionary foundation. We concluded that the DSM categories provide useful descriptions even if they fail to recognize that negative emotions can be symptoms, not diseases. bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
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 Riadh Abed and Paul St John-Smith
Like genes, neurotransmitters, organs, and emotions, proteins serve functions. But looking for THE function fosters tacit creationism & a distorted view of evolved organisms as if they were designed machines. Arvid Ågren prof. Robot Sapolsky Guru Madhavan sites.google.com/site/randolphn…