… both an evolutionary trade-off and a possible advantage in the rise of our complex social brain.
… Oddity - and even psychosis - could be seen as ultimate strategies for holding together a …

… of social intentions that comprise the aggregate of our mind break down into mental illness …
odd rage for adulation emerged in our evolutionary history. There have been occasions when …

… evolutionary cause of psychosis is a mismatch between aspects of the modern environment
(particularly aspects of the modern social … to consider the evolutionary origins of disease …

… between the major features of autism, and human evolution, is that our evolutionary history
has been characterized by elaboration of the ‘social brain’: the distributed, integrated set of …

… of humoral theories of insanity in favor of the brain and nerves as the seat of madness. The
… and the concurrent increased focus on the brain as the locus of mental illness, we turn to the …

… It may help to reconcile divergent philosophical concepts of mental illness, and also help us
… this hypothesis, the evolutionary origins can be understood only in the wider social context. …

… Dumit posits that, given their palatability and their prevalence in pop culture, oversimplified
brain scan figures can lead to misinformed opinions of mental illness and neuroscience.…

… that psychosis provided certain evolutionary advantages to prehistoric hominid tribes. The
idea that shamanism could be comparable to medical forms of insanity … history of psychosis, …

… This review will draw on a substantial literature to show how psycho-social understandings
of psychosis are robustly evidence based and offer a compelling alternative to reductionist …

… Madness is openly used as a term to bridge psychosis and human nature, and we are told
that madness has now been explained.Psychosis and schizophrenia are now understood as …