In this article, I outline a general framework for the evolutionary analysis of mental disorders
based on the concepts of life history theory. I synthesize and extend a large body of work …

Mental disorders arise from neural and psychological mechanisms that have been built and
shaped by natural selection across our evolutionary history. Looking at psychopathology …

We propose a taxonomy of psychopathology based on patterns of shared causal influences
identified in a review of multivariate behavior genetic studies that distinguish genetic and …

Evolutionary approaches to medicine can shed light on the origins and etiology of disease.
Such an approach may be especially useful in psychiatry, which frequently addresses …

Why are some people more vulnerable to common mental disorders than others? What
effects do genes and environments exert on the development of mental disorders? The …

Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine are concerned with medical conditions affecting
brain, mind and behaviour in manifold ways. Traditional approaches have focused on a …

We propose a novel developmentally informed framework to push research beyond a focus
on comorbidity between discrete diagnostic categories and to move toward research based …

In this chapter we situate developmental psychopathology in an evolutionary perspective,
and demonstrate how the discipline can benefit by embracing modern biological theory. We …

Psychopathology emerges from the dynamic interplay of physiological and mental
processes and ecological context. It can be seen as a failure of recursive, homeostatic …

The cross-fertilization of the sociology of mental health and life-course perspectives is a
valuable and increasingly investigated research topic. Mental health is dynamic rather than …