… 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 …

… : The Evolutionary Roots of Madness, Lesk threads evolutionary evidence with neurological
… evolution, from Neanderthals to Homo sapiens, and the specific changes to our brains after …

… in “depression with psychotic behavior” or “schizophrenia with psychotic features.” Usually
… to combat the psychotic features so that over several days' time, the psychotic features wane, …

… 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 …

… As such, many psychotic symptoms and syndromes may be considered trade-offs, primarily
manifesting themselves in domains related to the evolution of our ‘social brain’(Abed and …

… 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.…

… 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 …

… 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, …

Back in 2004, in a chapter titled “Brain Evolution and the Meaning of Catatonia”, a case was
made that the syndrome's core meaning is embedded in millions of years of vertebrate brain …