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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bruce Graham Charlton is a retired British medical doctor who was Visiting Professor of Theoretical Medicine at the University of Buckingham. Until April 2019, he was Reader in Evolutionary Psychiatry at Newcastle University. Charlton was editor of the controversial and not-conventionally-peer reviewed journal Medical Hypotheses from 2003 to 2010.
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- A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness (2001) (353)
- The rise and fall of EBM. (1998) (180)
- The Elite Brain Drain (2009) (148)
- The uses and abuses of meta-analysis. (1996) (118)
- Lectures are such an effective teaching method because they exploit evolved human psychology to improve learning. (2006) (89)
- Restoring the balance: evidence-based medicine put in its place. (1997) (87)
- Adrenal cortical innervation and glucocorticoid secretion. (1990) (84)
- The malaise theory of depression: major depressive disorder is sickness behavior and antidepressants are analgesic. (2000) (74)
- New perspectives in the evidence-based healthcare debate. (2000) (72)
- “Theory of mind”, persecutory delusions and the somatic marker mechanism (2000) (64)
- Why are modern scientists so dull? How science selects for perseverance and sociability at the expense of intelligence and creativity. (2009) (54)
- Living on the margin: a salutogenic model for socio-economic differentials in health. (1995) (54)
- A Critique of Geoffrey Rose's ‘Population Strategy’ for Preventive Medicine (1995) (54)
- Cortisol, ACTH, and dexamethasone concentrations in a psychogeriatric population (1988) (51)
- Hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis abnormalities in depression: a review and a model (1989) (50)
- The PACE (population-adjusted clinical epidemiology) strategy: a new approach to multi-centred clinical research. (1997) (49)
- Attribution of causation in epidemiology: chain or mosaic? (1996) (43)
- Distribution of corticotropin-releasing factor-like immunoreactivity in human brain (1987) (42)
- The scope and nature of epidemiology. (1996) (38)
- The modern and the postmodern in health promotion (2003) (38)
- The Making of a Doctor: Medical Education in Theory and Practice (1992) (36)
- Individual case studies in clinical research. (1998) (36)
- Medical research funding may have over-expanded and be due for collapse. (2005) (35)
- What Is Management and What Do Managers Do? A Systems Theory Account (2003) (35)
- Evaluating universities using simple scientometric research-output metrics: total citation counts per university for a retrospective seven-year rolling sample (2007) (35)
- CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING FACTOR IN PLASMA OF DEPRESSED PATIENTS AND CONTROLS (1986) (30)
- Fundamental deficiencies in the megatrial methodology (2001) (30)
- Understanding randomized controlled trials: explanatory or pragmatic? (1994) (29)
- Clever sillies: why high IQ people tend to be deficient in common sense. (2009) (28)
- The Inequity of Inequality (1997) (28)
- Theory of mind and the delusional disorders. (1999) (27)
- Philosophy of Medicine: Alternative or Scientific (1992) (26)
- The Zombie science of evidence-based medicine: a personal retrospective. A commentary on Djulbegovic, B., Guyatt, G. H. & Ashcroft, R. E. (2009). Cancer Control, 16, 158-168. (2009) (25)
- Is inequality bad for the national health? (1994) (25)
- Scientometric identification of elite 'revolutionary science' research institutions by analysis of trends in Nobel prizes 1947-2006. (2007) (24)
- Sex Differences in the Content of Persecutory Delusions: A Reflection of Hostile Threats in the Ancestral Environment? (1998) (24)
- Conflicts of interest in medical science: peer usage, peer review and 'CoI consultancy'. (2004) (24)
- Noradrenergic innervation of the human adrenal cortex as revealed by dopamine-beta-hydroxylase immunohistochemistry. (1992) (24)
- What is the Ultimate Cause of Socio-Economic Inequalities in Health? An Explanation in Terms of Evolutionary Psychology (1996) (23)
- Health promotion priorities for general practice: constructing and using “indicative prevalences” (1994) (23)
- Public Health Medicine — A Different Kind of Ethics? (1993) (22)
- Management of science (1993) (22)
- The future of 'pure' medical science: the need for a new specialist professional research system. (2005) (22)
- The rise of the boy-genius: psychological neoteny, science and modern life. (2006) (22)
- The Psychopharmacologists (1998) (22)
- Religious believers and strong atheists may both be less depressed than existentially-uncertain people. (2005) (21)
- Delirium and psychotic symptoms--an integrative model. (2002) (21)
- Zombie science: a sinister consequence of evaluating scientific theories purely on the basis of enlightened self-interest. (2008) (21)
- A preliminary study of acetylcholinesterase-positive innervation in the human adrenal cortex. (1991) (20)
- Megatrials are based on a methodological mistake. (1996) (20)
- Self-management of psychiatric symptoms using over-the-counter (OTC) psychopharmacology: the S-DTM therapeutic model--Self-diagnosis, self-treatment, self-monitoring. (2005) (20)
- Practice guidelines and practical judgement: the role of mega-trials, meta-analysis and consensus. (1994) (20)
- Medicine and post-modernity. (1993) (20)
- A critique of biological psychiatry (1990) (19)
- The four levels of health promotion: an integrated approach. (1993) (19)
- Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and the Future of Diagnosis: a ‘PC’ Model of the Mind (1995) (18)
- Globalization in science education: an inevitable and beneficial trend. (2006) (18)
- Down-shifting among top UK scientists? - the decline of 'revolutionary science' and the rise of 'normal science' in the UK compared with the USA. (2008) (18)
- Corticotropin-releasing factor immunoreactivity in post-mortem brain from depressed suicides (1988) (18)
- Five futures for academic medicine (2005) (18)
- The cancer of bureaucracy: how it will destroy science, medicine, education; and eventually everything else. (2010) (18)
- auditing as a tool of public policy: the misuse of quality assurance techniques in the UK university expansion (2002) (18)
- Healthy cities: a modern problem or a post-modern solution (1997) (17)
- Health promotion: time for a new philosophy? (1992) (17)
- Which are the best nations and institutions for revolutionary science 1987-2006? Analysis using a combined metric of Nobel prizes, Fields medals, Lasker awards and Turing awards (NFLT metric). (2007) (16)
- Medical practice and the double-blind, randomized controlled trial. (1991) (16)
- A Syllabus for Evolutionary Medicine (1997) (16)
- Diazepam with your dinner, Sir? The lifestyle drug-substitution strategy: a radical alcohol policy. (2005) (15)
- Mega-Trials: Methodological Issues and Clinical Implications (1995) (15)
- Holistic medicine or the humane doctor? (1993) (15)
- Service implications of the Calman report. (1993) (15)
- The future of clinical research: from megatrials towards methodological rigour and representative sampling. (1996) (14)
- A study of general innervation of the human adrenal cortex using PGP 9.5 immunohistochemistry. (1994) (13)
- Megatrials are subordinate to medical science (1995) (13)
- The 'anti-delirium' theory of electroconvulsive therapy action. (1999) (13)
- Alienation, recovered animism and altered states of consciousness. (2007) (13)
- Psychological neoteny and higher education: associations with delayed parenthood. (2007) (13)
- Why there should be more science Nobel prizes and laureates - And why proportionate credit should be awarded to institutions. (2007) (13)
- Figureheads, ghost-writers and pseudonymous quant bloggers: the recent evolution of authorship in science publishing. (2008) (12)
- A model for self-treatment of four sub-types of symptomatic 'depression' using non-prescription agents: neuroticism (anxiety and emotional instability); malaise (fatigue and painful symptoms); demotivation (anhedonia) and seasonal affective disorder 'SAD'. (2009) (12)
- Are you an honest scientist? Truthfulness in science should be an iron law, not a vague aspiration. (2009) (12)
- Randomized trials in alternative/complementary medicine. (2002) (12)
- Modernizing UK health services: 'short-sharp-shock' reform, the NHS subsistence economy, and the spectre of health care famine. (2005) (12)
- Democratic deficit and communication hyper-inflation in health care systems. (2002) (12)
- Theory of Mind Delusions and Bizarre Delusions in an Evolutionary Perspective: Psychiatry and the Social Brain (2003) (12)
- First a hero of science and now a martyr to science: the James Watson Affair - political correctness crushes free scientific communication. (2008) (11)
- The Audit Society: Rituals of Verification by Michael Power. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1997. £19.99 hbk, 183 pp. ISBN 0‐19‐828947‐2 (1998) (11)
- The Doctor's Aim in a Pluralistic Society: A Response to ‘Healing and Medicine’ (1993) (11)
- Should Epidemiologists Be Pragmatists, Biostatisticians, or Clinical Scientists? (1996) (11)
- Noradrenergic innervation to the adrenal cortex is responsible for control of basal glucocorticoid secretion: a model. (1995) (11)
- Measuring revolutionary biomedical science 1992-2006 using Nobel prizes, Lasker (clinical medicine) awards and Gairdner awards (NLG metric). (2007) (11)
- Replacing education with psychometrics: how learning about IQ almost-completely changed my mind about education. (2009) (11)
- Clinical research methods for the new millenium. (1999) (11)
- Randomized clinical trials: The worst kind of epidemiology? (1995) (11)
- Individual Differences in Existential Orientation: Empathizing and Systemizing Explain the Sex Difference in Religious Orientation and Science Acceptance (2013) (11)
- Genospirituality: genetic engineering for spiritual and religious enhancement. (2008) (11)
- Universities and social progress in modernising societies: how educational expansion has replaced socialism as an instrument of political reform (2005) (11)
- Numbers needed to treat derived from meta-analysis (1999) (11)
- Practical reform of preclinical education: core curriculum and science projects. (1991) (10)
- False, trivial, obvious: why new and revolutionary theories are typically disrespected. (2008) (10)
- The Ideology of ‘Accountability’ (1999) (10)
- Self‐management and pregnancy–safe interventions for panic, phobia and other anxiety‐disorders might include over‐the‐counter (OTC) ‘SSRI’ antihistamines such as diphenhydramine and chlorpheniramine (2005) (10)
- Possible dysgenic trends in simple visual reaction time performance in the Scottish Twenty-07 cohort: A reanalysis of Deary & Der (2005) (2014) (10)
- Natural kinds, natural history and the clinician-researcher. (1997) (9)
- Palliative psychopharmacology: a putative specialty to optimize the subjective quality of life. (2003) (9)
- Innervation of the human adrenal cortex: simultaneous visualisation using acetylcholinesterase histochemistry and dopamine beta-hydroxylase immunohistochemistry. (1993) (9)
- Vasoactive intestinal peptide stimulation of human renal adenylate cyclase in vitro. (1990) (8)
- How can the English-language scientific literature be made more accessible to non-native speakers? Journals should allow greater use of referenced direct quotations in 'component-oriented' scientific writing. (2007) (8)
- Mega-prizes in medicine: big cash awards may stimulate useful and rapid therapeutic innovation. (2007) (8)
- Self-Aware Software - Will It Become a Reality? (2005) (8)
- Treating unhappiness – society needs palliative psychopharmacology (2004) (8)
- A new science of health: salutology and the evolutionary perspective. (1996) (8)
- Psychopharmacology and the human condition (1998) (8)
- Boom or bubble? Is medical research thriving or about to crash? (2006) (8)
- The busy shall inherit the earth: the evolution from 'hard work' to 'busyness' in modern science and society. (2006) (8)
- Individual case studies in primary health care. (1999) (7)
- Science as a general education: Conceptual science should constitute the compulsory core of multi-disciplinary undergraduate degrees. (2006) (7)
- Mavericks versus team players: the trade-off between shared glory and making a personal contribution. (2008) (7)
- Pioneering studies of IQ by G.H. Thomson and J.F. Duff--an example of established knowledge subsequently 'hidden in plain sight'. (2008) (7)
- The nature and function of management–A perspective from systems theory (2004) (7)
- Why a Journal of Negative Results (2004) (7)
- The Sleep Elaboration-Awake Pruning (SEAP) theory of memory: long term memories grow in complexity during sleep and undergo selection while awake. Clinical, psychopharmacological and creative implications. (2009) (6)
- Why Medical hypotheses does not publish papers from the field of Alternative healing. (2004) (6)
- The vital role of transcendental truth in science. (2009) (6)
- The association between the development of weighing technology, possession and use of weighing scales, and self-reported severity of disordered eating (2014) (6)
- Statistical Malpractice (1996) (6)
- Somatostatin immunoreactivity in postmortem brain from depressed suicides. (1988) (6)
- European science must embrace modernization (2004) (5)
- Complex Biological Memory Conceptualized as an Abstract Communication System–Human Long Term Memories Grow in Complexity during Sleep and Undergo Selection while Awake (2007) (5)
- Preferential amplification of mutant clones as a mechanism of ageing. (1998) (5)
- Endocrine physiology and the value of case studies. (1991) (5)
- Scientific life should be measured in seven year units. (2006) (5)
- Peer usage versus peer review (2007) (5)
- Why medical research needs a new specialty of 'pure medical science'. (2006) (5)
- Evolution of the Psyche (1999) (5)
- Despite their inevitable conflicts--science, religion and New Age spirituality are essentially compatible and complementary activities. (2006) (5)
- Campaign to revitalise academic medicine (2004) (5)
- Senescence, Cancer and 'Endogenous Parasites': A Salutogenic Hypothesis (1996) (5)
- A preliminary study of plasma αMSH concentrations in depressed patients and normal subjects (1987) (4)
- If 'atypical' neuroleptics did not exist, it wouldn't be necessary to invent them: perverse incentives in drug development, research, marketing and clinical practice. (2005) (4)
- Science school and culture school: improving the efficiency of high school science teaching in a system of mass science education. (2006) (4)
- Crick's gossip test and Watson's boredom principle: A pseudo-mathematical analysis of effort in scientific research. (2008) (4)
- The last genius? -- reflections on the death of Francis Crick. (2004) (4)
- An evolutionary cosmology for scientists--and the modern world in general. (2007) (4)
- Epidemiology as a Toolkit for Clinical Scientists (1997) (4)
- 125I-vasoactive intestinal peptide binding in human kidney. (1991) (4)
- Screening, ethics, and the law. (1992) (4)
- An archaic training system (1991) (4)
- Management from the perspective of systems theory (2004) (4)
- Scientific discovery, peak experiences and the Col-oh-nell Flastratus! phenomenon. (2007) (3)
- Capitalism is a force for good (2007) (3)
- An "early warning system' for health needs: surveillance of the quality of clinical services by audit of extra-contractual referrals (ECRs). (1996) (3)
- Phenomenology of panic attacks reflects human evolutionary history of separation anxiety. (2000) (3)
- Why are doctors still prescribing neuroleptics? (2006) (3)
- Theory of mind and the “somatic marker mechanism” (SMM) (2001) (3)
- Why are women so intelligent? The effect of maternal IQ on childhood mortality may be a relevant evolutionary factor. (2010) (3)
- Teaching to do or teaching about (1990) (3)
- Medical Hypotheses 2006 impact factor rises to 1.3--a vindication of the 'editorial review' system for revolutionary science. (2007) (3)
- The potential for pharmacological treatment of unpleasant psychological symptoms to increase personal fulfillment in old age. (2001) (3)
- Depressive symptoms in injury and illness. (2001) (3)
- Plagiarism of online material may be proven using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine (archive.org). (2009) (3)
- Stimulating revolutionary science with mega-cash prizes. (2008) (3)
- How should we rate research?: Counting number of publications may be best research performance measure (2006) (3)
- Invisible colleges, private patronage and commercial profits versus public goods, government funding and 'crowding-out': Terence Kealey on the motivations and incentives driving science. (2009) (3)
- Faults, errors and failures in communications: a systems theory perspective on organisational structure (2006) (3)
- Public health versus personal health. (1993) (2)
- Participants in research: Routine extrapolation of randomised controlled trials is absurd (2005) (2)
- Should epidemiologists be pragmatists, biostatisticians, or clinical scientists? (1996) (2)
- Stories of sickness (1991) (2)
- A book of ideas collected from Medical Hypotheses: Death can be cured by Roger Dobson. (2008) (2)
- From Nutty Professor to Buddy Love--Personality types in modern science. (2007) (2)
- Hype and spin in the NHS. (2002) (2)
- Stress. (1992) (2)
- Why it is 'better' to be reliable but dumb than smart but slapdash: are intelligence (IQ) and Conscientiousness best regarded as gifts or virtues. (2009) (2)
- Empathy and the Practice of Medicine: Beyond Pills and the Scalpel. Edited by H. M. Spiro, M. G. McC. Curnen, E. Peschel and D. St James. (Pp. 208; £14.95.) Yale University Press: Connecticut. 1993. (1994) (2)
- Sex ratios in the most-selective elite US undergraduate colleges and universities are consistent with the hypothesis that modern educational systems increasingly select for conscientious personality compared with intelligence. (2009) (2)
- Evolution of Empathizing and Systemizing: Empathizing as an aspect of social intelligence, systemizing as an evolutionarily later consequence of economic specialization (2016) (2)
- Is Immortality a Possibility?: A Thought Experiment Concerning the Inevitability of Senescence Due to Endogenous Parasitism (2015) (2)
- First and second things, and the operations of conscience in science. (2010) (2)
- Social deprivation and health. Wealth redistribution has its price. (1993) (2)
- Covert drug dependence should be the null hypothesis for explaining drug-withdrawal-induced clinical deterioration: the necessity for placebo versus drug withdrawal trials on normal control subjects. (2010) (2)
- After science: has the tradition been broken? (2010) (2)
- The Bowling Equivalent of the Batting Average: Quantitative Evaluation of the Contribution of Bowlers in Cricket Using a Novel Statistic of 'Extra Runs Saved Per Match' (ERS/M) (2007) (2)
- Health vs. disease: a commentary on 'The rationale of value-laden medicine' (Kottow 2002; Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 8, 77-84). (2003) (2)
- Lunacy, insanity, and the purpose of psychiatry (1990) (1)
- The paradox of the modern mass media: probably the major source of social cohesion in liberal democracies, even though its content is often socially divisive. (2006) (1)
- No short cuts to science (1999) (1)
- Inequalities and health (1994) (1)
- WITHDRAWN: Erratum to "Which are the best nations and institutions for revolutionary science 1987-2006? Analysis using a combined metric of Nobel prizes, Fields medals, Lasker awards and Turing awards (NFLT metric)" [Medical Hypotheses 68 (2007) 1191-1194]. (2007) (1)
- Health equity for all: Capitalism is a force for good. (2007) (1)
- Medicine has lost something unique and irreplaceable (2003) (1)
- Obituary for David Horrobin: Medicine has lost something unique and irreplaceable (2003) (1)
- James Willis. The Paradox of Progress (1998) (1)
- CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE (1987) (1)
- Why are top universities losing their lead? An economics modelling-based approach (2009) (1)
- Testimony. Crises of Witnessing in Literature. Psychoanalysis and History. By S. Felman and D. Laub 1992.294 pp. £35.00 (hb), £12.99 (pb). (1993) (1)
- Electroshock in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance--fictional, not factual. (2009) (1)
- How do we ensure that research is reproducible (2016) (1)
- Commentary on Sweeney & Kernick (2002), Clinical evaluation: constructing a new model for post-normal medicine. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 8, 131-138. (2002) (1)
- Reshaping the preclinical medical curriculum: a modest proposal (1991) (1)
- Campaign to revitalise academic medicine: Is the bubble due to burst for medical research funding? (2004) (1)
- Reflections on a scientific paper of 1926 by the medical 'Inkling' Robert Emlyn 'Humphrey' Havard (1901-1985). (2009) (1)
- Postmortem Investigation of Serotonergic and Peptidergic Hypotheses of Affective Illness (1989) (1)
- Medicine and the space odyssey. (2006) (1)
- Three potential emotional causes of depressive symptoms – negative emotionality, hyper-emotionality and hypo-emotionality: a preliminary study (2016) (0)
- Science production in top 20 UK universities is catching-up with the US universities (2007) (0)
- Corticotropin-Releasing Hormone and the Proopiomelanocortin-Derived Peptides in Depression (1990) (0)
- Book Review: The Healing Arts: An Oxford Illustrated Anthology (1996) (0)
- Deep science, creative science: Patient brooding versus evidence-reason-based techniques (2016) (0)
- The literature of Alasdair Gray (1989) (0)
- What’s in a name? (2002) (0)
- Reconceptualizing the metaphysical basis of biology: a new definition based on deistic teleology and an hierarchy of organizing entities (2016) (0)
- Treating unhappiness--society needs palliative psychopharmacology. (2004) (0)
- Knowledge first, critique later: why it is a mistake for science education to encourage junior students to discuss, challenge and debate scientific knowledge. (2010) (0)
- Seven year units in science: general lessons from the personal experience of working on adrenal cortex innervation and cortisol secretion (2016) (0)
- Advice to a young (real) biologist: a ten point program (2016) (0)
- The Once and Future Charles Williams (2016) (0)
- Spock the difference (1989) (0)
- Personal View (1993) (0)
- Parables preferred (1989) (0)
- The Neurological Boundaries of Reality (1994) (0)
- General and applied psychiatric ethics (1992) (0)
- The Need for a New Specialist Professional Research System of “Pure” Medical Science (2005) (0)
- In Response Senescence, Cancer and Endogenous Parasites (1996) (0)
- Towards a knowledge based health service May lead to more red tape (1994) (0)
- Neuroleptics revisited. (2006) (0)
- In the press: Science and Public Policy (2007) (0)
- Jacob Bronowski's principle of tolerance. (2008) (0)
- An analysis of the dynamics of British academic science (2007) (0)
- Are both religious believers and atheists less depressed than the 'existentially uncertain'? (2017) (0)
- Book reviews (1995) (0)
- Personal view The moral case against psychotherapy (1991) (0)
- What is psychiatry? (1991) (0)
- Social and psychiatric implications of sex-differentials in aggression (1999) (0)
- The Portrayal of ECT in the Media: Realistic or Deceptive? (2017) (0)
- Do I wake or sleep? (1991) (0)
- Feminism and psychiatry—Reply (1993) (0)
- Added entries UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE (2006) (0)
- Added entries UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE (2006) (0)
- Sexual ethics in psychiatry. (1993) (0)
- Charlton BG, Andras P. (2003). The educational function and implications for teaching of multi-disciplinary modular (MDM) (2003) (0)
- How should we rate research (2006) (0)
- Humane Medicine (1996) (0)
- “-isms” and psychiatry: the threat of single issue politics (1992) (0)
- Evidence-based medicine: So is it useful? (1997) (0)
- The Treason of The Editors - How Scientific Journal Editors Changed Sides (2014) (0)
- A teleological metaphysics for biology: Hierarchical, purposive, conscious, governing entities direct evolutionary processes. (2016) (0)
- A preliminary studyofacetylcholinesterase-positive innervation inthehumanadrenal cortex (1991) (0)
- Existential Orientation Scale (2019) (0)
- based medicine" and once again becomes an activity based in clinical science, such absurdities may become a thing of the past. I hope so. (1999) (0)
- Opera: Desire, Disease, Death (1996) (0)
- Absolute effects of relative poverty (1994) (0)
- Plight of UK science (1987) (0)
- Nomenclature of optimal BMI: slim's the word. (1999) (0)
- Science is fundamentally self-regulated by the integrity of individual scientists: therefore young scientists must develop their personal qualities, as well as learning their subject (2016) (0)
- The moral case against psychotherapy (1991) (0)
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