Psychologists and psychiatrists tend to be little aware that (a) microbes in our brains and
guts are capable of altering our behavior;(b) viral DNA that was incorporated into our DNA …

Maternal stress during pregnancy has pervasive effects on the offspring's physiology and
behavior, including the development of anxious, reactive temperament and increased stress …

College students with autism may be negatively impacted by lack of understanding about
autism on college campuses. Thus, we developed an online training to improve knowledge …

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 …

The analysis of functional connectivity at rest (rFC) enables us to know how brain regions
within and between networks interact. In this study, we used resting-state functional …

Background Sex differences in personality are believed to be comparatively small. However,
research in this area has suffered from significant methodological limitations. We advance a …

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

Decades of research demonstrate that conflict shapes and permeates a broad range of
family processes. In the current article, we argue that greater insight, integration of …

Adolescence and young adulthood appear to form the most difficult period in the lives of
high-functioning individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD; Tantam, 2003). The …