Randolph M. Nesse
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Randolph Martin Nesse is an American physician, scientist and author who is notable for his role as a founder of the field of evolutionary medicine and evolutionary psychiatry. Education and career Nesse studied at Carleton College from 1966 to 1970. He went on to receive his M.D. at the University of Michigan Medical School in 1974 and carried out his medical residency at the same place. Nesse became an instructor in psychiatry at the University of Michigan in 1977 and became an assistant professor there in psychiatry in 1979. He became associate professor in psychiatry in 1985 and professor in psychiatry in 1993 at University of Michigan, where he was also a professor of psychology since 2001. Nesse became professor emeritus at Michigan at the end of 2013.
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- Prevalence and distribution of major depressive disorder in African Americans, Caribbean blacks, and non-Hispanic whites: results from the National Survey of American Life. (2007) (1090)
- Providing Social Support May Be More Beneficial Than Receiving It (2003) (1064)
- Resilience to loss and chronic grief: a prospective study from preloss to 18-months postloss. (2002) (913)
- Evolutionary explanations of emotions (1990) (801)
- The National Survey of American Life: a study of racial, ethnic and cultural influences on mental disorders and mental health (2004) (779)
- The Dawn of Darwinian Medicine (1991) (685)
- Depression is not a consistent syndrome: An investigation of unique symptom patterns in the STAR*D study. (2015) (516)
- Prospective patterns of resilience and maladjustment during widowhood. (2004) (508)
- Is depression an adaptation? (2000) (494)
- Depression sum-scores don’t add up: why analyzing specific depression symptoms is essential (2015) (486)
- Fear and fitness: an evolu-tionary analysis of anxiety disorders (1994) (483)
- Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine (1995) (467)
- Luxury Fever: Why Money Fails to Satisfy in an Era of Excess (2001) (436)
- What are 'good' depression symptoms? Comparing the centrality of DSM and non-DSM symptoms of depression in a network analysis. (2016) (414)
- Evolution and the capacity for commitment (2001) (366)
- The effect of widowhood on older adults' social participation: an evaluation of activity, disengagement, and continuity theories. (2002) (358)
- Psychoactive drug use in evolutionary perspective. (1997) (345)
- A BDNF Coding Variant is Associated with the NEO Personality Inventory Domain Neuroticism, a Risk Factor for Depression (2003) (343)
- Evolution, emotions, and emotional disorders. (2009) (334)
- Natural selection and the regulation of defenses: A signal detection analysis of the smoke detector principle. (2004) (332)
- Race, ethnicity, and the use of services for mental disorders: results from the National Survey of American Life. (2007) (310)
- The Impact of Individual Depressive Symptoms on Impairment of Psychosocial Functioning (2014) (281)
- Marital quality and psychological adjustment to widowhood among older adults: a longitudinal analysis. (2000) (242)
- Natural selection and the elusiveness of happiness. (2004) (239)
- Adrenergic function in patients with panic anxiety. (1984) (239)
- Evolutionary health promotion. (2002) (211)
- Making evolutionary biology a basic science for medicine (2010) (207)
- Depression is more than the sum score of its parts: individual DSM symptoms have different risk factors (2013) (206)
- The great opportunity: Evolutionary applications to medicine and public health (2008) (203)
- An evolutionary life-history framework for understanding sex differences in human mortality rates (2006) (202)
- The evolutionary significance of depressive symptoms: different adverse situations lead to different depressive symptom patterns. (2006) (194)
- Psychological adjustment to sudden and anticipated spousal loss among older widowed persons. (2001) (188)
- Ages of onset of DSM-III anxiety disorders. (1985) (174)
- Evolutionary foundations for cancer biology (2013) (172)
- Methodological innovations in the National Survey of American Life (2004) (172)
- Emotional disorders in evolutionary perspective. (1998) (165)
- Endocrine and cardiovascular responses during phobic anxiety. (1985) (164)
- The Smoke Detector Principle (2001) (159)
- Childhood adversity and vulnerability to mood and anxiety disorders (1997) (159)
- Is low mood an adaptation? Evidence for subtypes with symptoms that match precipitants. (2005) (157)
- Proximate and evolutionary studies of anxiety, stress and depression: synergy at the interface (1999) (157)
- Pretreatment Nausea in Cancer Chemotherapy: A Conditioned Response?* (1980) (152)
- Persistent respiratory irregularity in patients with panic disorder (2001) (151)
- Sexual Selection and the Male:Female Mortality Ratio (2004) (148)
- Towards a genuinely medical model for psychiatric nosology (2012) (146)
- Evolution and Healing: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine (1994) (145)
- Runaway Social Selection for Displays of Partner Value and Altruism (2007) (139)
- Evolutionary public health: introducing the concept (2017) (136)
- Serotonin transporter and GABA(A) alpha 6 receptor variants are associated with neuroticism (2003) (134)
- Why We Get Sick (1995) (124)
- The Trivers–Willard hypothesis of parental investment: No effect in the contemporary United States (2001) (121)
- Religion and Emotional Compensation: Results from a Prospective Study of Widowhood (2004) (120)
- Evolution and the origins of disease. (1998) (119)
- Prevalence and Distribution of Major Depressive Disorder in African Americans, Caribbean Blacks, and Non-Hispanic Whites (2007) (118)
- Evolutionary Origins and Functions of the Stress Response (2007) (111)
- Older Adults' Perceptions of Intergenerational Support After Widowhood (2006) (108)
- Medicine Needs Evolution (2006) (107)
- Cholecystokinin-4 and panic. (1990) (104)
- Maladaptation and Natural Selection (2005) (104)
- Evolutionary perspectives on health and medicine (2010) (102)
- The dexamethasone suppression test in panic disorder and agoraphobia. (1982) (100)
- Unfair treatment and self-regulatory focus (2007) (99)
- WHAT GOOD IS FEELING BAD (1991) (91)
- Platelet alpha 2-adrenergic receptor binding and plasma catecholamines. Before and during imipramine treatment in patients with panic anxiety. (1984) (88)
- On the difficulty of defining disease: A Darwinian perspective (2001) (87)
- An evolutionary perspective on panic disorder and agoraphobia (1987) (85)
- Sex differences in ability to recognize family resemblance (1990) (85)
- Systemic hormonal and physiological abnormalities in anxiety disorders (1988) (84)
- Effect of alcohol on social phobic anxiety. (1999) (84)
- Tinbergen's four questions, organized: a response to Bateson and Laland. (2013) (80)
- Classification systems in psychiatry: diagnosis and global mental health in the era of DSM-5 and ICD-11 (2013) (77)
- The differential influence of life stress on individual symptoms of depression (2015) (72)
- Symptom profiles of patients with DSM-III anxiety disorders. (1986) (72)
- The evolutionary functions of repression and the ego defenses. (1990) (72)
- Alcohol abuse among clinically anxious patients. (1986) (70)
- ORIGINAL ARTICLES Fear and Fitness: An Evolutionary Analysis of Anxiety (1994) (69)
- What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genes (2002) (67)
- A comparison of panic disorder and agoraphobia with panic attacks. (1985) (66)
- Pentagastrin infusions in patients with panic disorder I. Symptoms and cardiovascular responses (1994) (66)
- Ten questions for evolutionary studies of disease vulnerability (2011) (64)
- How is Darwinian medicine useful? (2001) (62)
- An Evolutionary View (1988) (62)
- Pentagastrin infusions in patients with panic disorder II. Neuroendocrinology (1994) (62)
- The Daily Consequences of Widowhood (2004) (61)
- The evolution of psychodynamic mechanisms (1992) (60)
- A standardized behavioral group treatment program for obsessive-compulsive disorder: preliminary outcomes. (1991) (58)
- Defense mechanism changes in successfully treated patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. (1998) (58)
- Antidepressant use in black and white populations in the United States. (2008) (57)
- Evolutionary biology: a basic science for psychiatry? (1992) (56)
- Case histories and shorter communications. Agoraphobia: a test of the separation anxiety hypothesis. (1985) (55)
- Life table tests of evolutionary theories of senescence (1988) (54)
- Chapter 1 Natural Selection and the Capacity for Subjective Commitment (2001) (54)
- An evolutionary perspective on substance abuse (1994) (54)
- Respiratory Psychophysiology and Anxiety: Cognitive Intervention in the Doxapram Model of Panic (1996) (53)
- Evolutionary Origins and Functions of the Stress Response System (2016) (52)
- An evolutionary perspective on psychiatry. (1984) (51)
- Evolutionary Biology in the Medical School Curriculum (2003) (50)
- Threat detection, precautionary responses, and anxiety disorders (2011) (50)
- What is mood for (1991) (50)
- "Flooding in vivo" during the circadian phase of minimal cortisol secretion: anxiety and therapeutic success without adrenal cortical activation. (1976) (48)
- Evolutionary molecular medicine (2012) (47)
- The evolution of hope and despair (1999) (46)
- What good is feeling bad-the evolutionary benefits of psychic pain (1991) (46)
- Evolution: medicine's most basic science (2008) (45)
- Evolutionary Psychology and Mental Health (2015) (45)
- Group behavioral therapy of obsessive‐compulsive disorder: Seven‐ vs. twelve‐week outcomes (2001) (45)
- Teleological reasoning, not acceptance of evolution, impacts students’ ability to learn natural selection (2017) (42)
- Peripheral catecholamine levels and the symptoms of anxiety: studies in patients with and without pheochromocytoma. (1990) (41)
- Anxiety in patients with pheochromocytomas. (1985) (41)
- CHOLINERGIC SIDE-EFFECTS ASSOCIATED WITH DEANOL (1976) (40)
- Anxiety Induced by Flooding Therapy for Phobias Does Not Elicit Prolactin Secretory Response* (1980) (39)
- EVOLUTION AND MEDICINE IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION: A PRESCRIPTION FOR ALL BIOLOGY STUDENTS (2012) (39)
- Neuroendocrine responses to laboratory panic: Cognitive intervention in the doxapram model (1996) (38)
- Panic disorder: a test of the separation anxiety hypothesis. (1986) (38)
- Urinary catecholamines and mitral valve prolapse in panic-anxiety patients (1985) (36)
- Stimulation of corticotropin release by pentagastrin in normal subjects and patients with panic disorder (1991) (35)
- Anxiety and cardiovascular reactivity in the Tecumseh population (1998) (34)
- Social Selection and the Origins of Culture (2009) (34)
- The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow Into Depressive Disorder (2008) (33)
- Evolution: Psychiatric nosology's missing biological foundation (2006) (33)
- The comparative biochemistry of collagen: the structure of rabbit skin colllagen and its relevance to immunochemical studies of collagen. (1970) (32)
- Psychological adjustment to sudden and anticipated spousal death among the older widowed (2001) (32)
- Evolutionary Ecology of Organs: A Missing Link in Cancer Development? (2016) (31)
- Explaining depression: neuroscience is not enough, evolution is essential (2009) (31)
- TESTING EVOLUTIONARY HYPOTHESES ABOUT MENTAL DISORDERS (1999) (30)
- Economic Transition, Male Competition, and Sex Differences in Mortality Rates (2007) (30)
- Evolution at 150: time for truly biological psychiatry (2009) (28)
- Evolution and addiction. (2002) (26)
- Evolutionary biology in the medical curriculum - What every physician should know (1997) (25)
- Commentary: “Consistent Superiority of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Over Placebo in Reducing Depressed Mood in Patients with Major Depression” (2015) (25)
- Plasma growth hormone: effect of anxiety during flooding in vivo. (1979) (24)
- Cliff-edged fitness functions and the persistence of schizophrenia (2004) (22)
- Association between a dopamine-4 receptor polymorphism and blood pressure. (2005) (22)
- The status of evolutionary medicine education in North American medical schools (2015) (21)
- An evolutionary medicine perspective on pain and its disorders (2019) (21)
- Flooding in vivo as research tool and treatment method for phobias: a preliminary report. (1976) (18)
- RESEARCH DESIGNS THAT ADDRESS EVOLUTIONARY QUESTIONS ABOUT MEDICAL DISORDERS (1999) (18)
- Understanding Depression: A Translational Approach (2009) (17)
- The smoke detector principle (2018) (17)
- Introducing Evolutionary Thinking For Medicine (2010) (16)
- Pseudohallucinations in cancer chemotherapy patients. (1983) (15)
- Platelet alpha2-Adrenoreceptors, Catecholamines, Hemodynamic Variables, and Anxiety in Panic Patients and Their Asymptomatic Relatives (1996) (15)
- Do special occasions trigger psychological distress among older bereaved spouses? An empirical assessment of clinical wisdom. (2014) (15)
- Normal and Abnormal Anxiety in the Age of DSM-5 and ICD-11 (2015) (15)
- On Darwinian Medicine (15)
- Phobic anxiety does not affect plasma levels of thyroid stimulating hormone in man (1982) (15)
- Evolution is the scientific foundation for diagnosis: psychiatry should use it. (2007) (14)
- Why Has Natural Selection Left Us So Vulnerable to Anxiety and Mood Disorders? (2011) (14)
- Evolutionary biology: a basic science for psychiatry? (1992) (14)
- The Nature of Grief: The Evolution and Psychology of Reactions to Loss;: John Archer, London: Routledge, 1999. 317 pp. ISBN 0-415-17858-4, Paperback $31.99 (2000) (13)
- Core principles of evolutionary medicine (2017) (13)
- Tinbergen’s four questions (2018) (12)
- Why is group selection such a problem? (1994) (12)
- Does selection for short sleep duration explain human vulnerability to Alzheimer’s disease? (2017) (12)
- Evaluation of plasma 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol. (1986) (12)
- Dr. Curtis and Associates Reply (1983) (12)
- Psychobiology of anxiety and anxiety disorders. (1985) (11)
- Letter: Cholinergic side-effects associated with deanol. (1976) (11)
- Trisomy: Chromosome competition or maternal strategy?: Increase of trisomy incidence with increasing maternal age does not result from competition between chromosomes (1992) (11)
- Natural selection, mental modules and intelligence. (2000) (11)
- An evolutionary framework for understanding sex differences in Croatian mortality rates (2006) (10)
- Diagnostic and gender differences in the expressed fears of anxious patients. (1985) (10)
- Darwinian medicine and mental disorders (2006) (10)
- Evolutionary approaches to sexually transmitted infections (2011) (10)
- What evolutionary biology offers public health. (2008) (10)
- The evolution of evolutionary molecular medicine (2012) (10)
- Behavior therapy of phobias: Predictors of outcome (1986) (10)
- Sequential Trials of Fluoxetine, Phenelzine, and Tranylcypromine in the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (1989) (10)
- Evolutionary foundations for psychiatric diagnosis: making DSM-V valid1 (2011) (9)
- Treatment of Panic-Like Attacks with a Long-Acting Analogue of Somatostatin (1990) (9)
- The state of evolutionary medicine in undergraduate education (2019) (8)
- Vomiting is not an adaption for glaucoma (and Darwinian medicine is difficult). (2008) (7)
- Comment: A General “Theory of Emotion” Is Neither Necessary nor Possible (2014) (7)
- Motivation and melancholy: a darwinian perspective. (2001) (7)
- Evolution: a basic science for medicine (2011) (7)
- Standardization of the fear survey schedule based upon patients with DSM-III anxiety disorders. (1984) (7)
- Innovative Science (2015) (6)
- Understanding late life widowhood: New directions in research, theory and practice (2005) (6)
- THE SOCIOBIOLOGICAL IMAGINATION (2000) (6)
- The effects of central cholecystokinin receptor blockade on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal and symptomatic responses to overnight withdrawal from alprazolam (1995) (6)
- Social selection is a powerful explanation for prosociality (2016) (5)
- Summary of the evolution and human behavior conferences: Ann Arbor, Michigan, April and October 1988 (1989) (5)
- The evolution of non-infectious and degenerative disease (1999) (5)
- Darwinian medicine: What evolutionary medicine offers to endothelium researchers (2007) (5)
- Natural selection and fear regulation mechanisms (1995) (5)
- An Evolutionary Perspective on Senescence (1987) (5)
- Computer Emotions and Mental Software (1994) (5)
- Antidepressant Use among Blacks and Whites in the United States (2008) (5)
- Lay Theories and Metaphors of Health and Illness (2017) (4)
- Integrating Evolutionary Biology into Medical Education for Maternal and Child Healthcare Students, Clinicians, and Scientists. Edited by Jay Schulkin and Michael L. Power. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. $85.00. xvii + 254 p.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978-0-19-881415-3. 2020. (2021) (3)
- How Can Evolution and Neuroscience Help Us Understand Moral Capacities (2009) (3)
- How evolutionary psychiatry can advance psychopharmacology (2019) (3)
- Antidepressant use Among Blacks and Whites in the US (2008) (3)
- Human compulsivity: A perspective from evolutionary medicine (2016) (3)
- EVOLUTIONARY FOUNDATIONS FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE (2015) (3)
- Introduction: Five Evolutionary Principles for Understanding Cancer (2017) (2)
- EvMedEd: A Teaching Resource for Integrating Medical Examples into Evolution Education (2020) (2)
- Culture and Medicine How is Darwinian medicine useful (2001) (2)
- Evolutionary Medicine – A Great Way to Teach Biology (2019) (2)
- REVIEW Evolutionary Health Promotion (2002) (2)
- Darwin 200: Great expectations (2008) (2)
- Anorexia: A perverse effect of attempting to control the starvation response (2017) (2)
- Anxiety in Patients With Pheochromocytomas (1985) (1)
- Darwin 200: Beyond the origin (2008) (1)
- Mad Neanderthal disease? Some comments on ''A potential role for Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies in Neanderthal extinction'' (2008) (1)
- Outcomes of Group Cognitive Behavioral Training in the Treatment of Panic Disorder And Agoraphobia (1995) (1)
- Mortality Providing Social Support May Be More Beneficial Than Receiving It : Results From a Prospective Study of (2012) (1)
- Emotional evolution : A Darwinian understanding of suffering and well-being (2014) (1)
- Special issue introduction: Mental disorders in an evolutionary context (1994) (1)
- Evolution: medicine's missing basic science (2007) (1)
- How Antipanic Drugs Might Work (1986) (1)
- A Missing Link in Cancer Development (2016) (1)
- EVOLUTION AND ADDICTION Proximate explanations An evolutionary approach to behavior is wonderful (2002) (1)
- How antipanic drugs might work. (1986) (1)
- Five evolutionary principles for understanding cancer (2017) (1)
- Why has Natural Selection Left Us So Vulnerable to Disease ? (1)
- Is depression ever adaptive? Evolutionary perspectives (2002) (0)
- Pathogens Interacting with Humans (2014) (0)
- How Understanding the Utility of Negative Emotions Improves Treatment (2014) (0)
- Doctors need evolution the way engineers need physics, but they don't get it because of politics (2018) (0)
- Twelve Diseases That Changed Our World.ByIrwin W. Sherman. Washington (DC): ASM Press. $29.95 (paper). ix + 219 p.; index. 978‐1‐55581‐466‐3. 2007. (2008) (0)
- Re: Evolutionary Explanations for Patients (2012) (0)
- Evolutionary foundations for psychiatric research and practice (2017) (0)
- Book Review:The Creative Mind. C. Scott Findlay, Charles J. Lumsden (1990) (0)
- Evolutionary Biology in Medical Education: Survey of North American Medical Schools (2015) (0)
- Evolutionary molecular medicine (2012) (0)
- Digesting evolution (2009) (0)
- xv Introduction : Five Evolutionary Principles for Understanding Cancer (2017) (0)
- The principles of evolution by natural selection are finally beginning to inform medicine Evolution and the Origins of Disease (1999) (0)
- ORIGINAL ARTICLES Pentagastrin Infusions in Patients with Parfic Disorder I. Symptoms and Cardiovascular Responses (1994) (0)
- EVOLUTIONARY QUESTIONS ABOUT MEDICAL DISORDERS (1999) (0)
- Forewarning of Spouse ’ s Death and Psychological Adjustment to Widowhood Among Older Adults (2000) (0)
- What it means to be 98 percent chimpanzee (book review) (2002) (0)
- Review of Problems of Living: Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychiatry and Cognitive-Affective Science (2021) (0)
- Mental disorders in the light of evolutionary biology (2007) (0)
- Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire (2014) (0)
- Social Situations Shape Social Emotions That Benefit Genes (2022) (0)
- Repository ) Commentary : " Consistent superiority of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors over placebo in reducing depressed mood in patients with major depression (2015) (0)
- Is Seasonal Affective Disorder really just a “Folk Construct”? (2016) (0)
- An Evolutionary View an Evolut I Onary V I Ew (0)
- Human nature and the Holy Grail (1991) (0)
- 77. Persistent respiratory irregularity in patients with panic disorder (1996) (0)
- Expanded Academic ASAP Plus (1997) (0)
- James Van Gundia Neel, papers, ca. 1935-1999 (2014) (0)
- Natural Selection, Mental Modules and Intelligence Paper for Presentation at Novartis Meeting On (0)
- Audience questions about evolution and medicine (2007) (0)
- Advisory Board and Contents (2020) (0)
- Advisory Board and Contents (2020) (0)
- Teleological reasoning, not acceptance of evolution, impacts students’ ability to learn natural selection (2017) (0)
- The status of evolutionary medicine education in North American medical schools (2015) (0)
- R syntax for "Symptomics as a new research paradigm in psychiatry" (2016) (0)
- The evolution of evolutionary molecular medicine (2012) (0)
- An evolutionary perspective on bereavement (2005) (0)
- Evolution: Medicine’s most basic science (2020) (0)
- Care and Cure: An Introduction to Philosophy of Medicine. By Jacob Stegenga. Chicago (Illinois): University of Chicago Press. $75.00 (hardcover); $25.00 (paper). xiii + 248 p.; index. ISBN: 978-0-226-59081-3 (hc); 978-0-226-59503-0 (pb); 978-0-226-59517-7 (eb). 2018. (2020) (0)
- Nothing to Sneeze At (1994) (0)
- Ethology and biomedical science (1999) (0)
- Author's reply (2010) (0)
- Darwinism and psychiatry. (1998) (0)
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