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"Flooding in vivo" during the circadian phase of minimal cortisol secretion: anxiety and therapeutic success without adrenal cortical activation

scientific article published on February 1, 1976

A BDNF coding variant is associated with the NEO personality inventory domain neuroticism, a risk factor for depression

scientific article published on 29 August 2002

A comparison of panic disorder and agoraphobia with panic attacks

scientific article published in March 1985

A standardized behavioral group treatment program for obsessive-compulsive disorder: preliminary outcomes

scientific article published in January 1991

Adrenergic function in patients with panic anxiety

scientific article published on August 1984

Ages of onset of DSM-III anxiety disorders

scientific article published in March 1985

Alcohol abuse among clinically anxious patients

scientific article published on 01 January 1986

An evolutionary life-history framework for understanding sex differences in human mortality rates

scientific article published in March 2006

An evolutionary medicine perspective on pain and its disorders

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

An evolutionary perspective on psychiatry

scientific article published in November 1984

Anorexia: A perverse effect of attempting to control the starvation response

scientific article published in January 2017

Antidepressant use in black and white populations in the United States.

scientific article published on October 2008

Anxiety and cardiovascular reactivity in the Tecumseh population

scientific article published in December 1998

Anxiety and plasma cortisol at the crest of the circadian cycle:reappraisal of a classical hypothesis

scientific article published on August 1978

Anxiety in patients with pheochromocytomas

scientific article published in February 1985

Anxiety induced by flooding therapy for phobias does not elicit prolactin secretory response

scientific article published in January 1980

Association between a dopamine-4 receptor polymorphism and blood pressure.

scientific article published in September 2005

Behavior therapy of phobias: predictors of outcome

scientific article published on 01 November 1986

Case histories and shorter communications. Agoraphobia: a test of the separation anxiety hypothesis.

scientific article published on January 1985

Childhood adversity and vulnerability to mood and anxiety disorders

scientific article published in January 1997

Cholecystokinin-4 and panic

scientific article published in April 1990

Classification systems in psychiatry: diagnosis and global mental health in the era of DSM-5 and ICD-11

scientific article

Commentary: "Consistent Superiority of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors Over Placebo in Reducing Depressed Mood in Patients with Major Depression".

scientific article published on 21 August 2015

Core principles of evolutionary medicine: A Delphi study.

scientific article published on 26 December 2017

Darwinism and psychiatry.

scientific article published in January 1998

Defense mechanism changes in successfully treated patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder

scientific article published on 01 April 1998

Depression is more than the sum score of its parts: individual DSM symptoms have different risk factors

scientific article

Depression is not a consistent syndrome: An investigation of unique symptom patterns in the STAR*D study

scientific article

Depression sum-scores don't add up: why analyzing specific depression symptoms is essential

scientific article

Diagnostic and gender differences in the expressed fears of anxious patients

scientific article published in June 1985

Digesting evolution

journal article; published in Nature on 2009-07-22

Do special occasions trigger psychological distress among older bereaved spouses? An empirical assessment of clinical wisdom

scientific article published on 29 June 2013

Does selection for short sleep duration explain human vulnerability to Alzheimer's disease?

scientific article published on 16 January 2017

Effect of alcohol on social phobic anxiety

scientific article published on 01 August 1999

Emotional disorders in evolutionary perspective

scientific article published in December 1998

Endocrine and cardiovascular responses during phobic anxiety.

scientific article

Evolution and addiction

scientific article

Evolution and medicine in undergraduate education: a prescription for all biology students

scientific article published on 6 February 2012

Evolution and the origins of disease

scientific article

Evolution at 150: time for truly biological psychiatry

scientific article published in December 2009

Evolution in health and medicine Sackler colloquium: Evolutionary perspectives on health and medicine.

scientific article

Evolution in health and medicine Sackler colloquium: Making evolutionary biology a basic science for medicine

scientific article

Evolution is the scientific foundation for diagnosis: psychiatry should use it

scientific article published on October 2007

Evolution, emotions, and emotional disorders

scientific article published in February 2009

Evolution: medicine's most basic science

scientific article published in The Lancet

Evolutionary Ecology of Organs: A Missing Link in Cancer Development?

scientific article

Evolutionary approaches to sexually transmitted infections ⬇️

scientific article published on August 1, 2011

Evolutionary biology: a basic science for psychiatry

scientific article

Evolutionary biology: a basic science for psychiatry?

scientific article published on August 1, 1992

Evolutionary explanations of emotions

scientific article published in September 1990

Evolutionary foundations for cancer biology

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Evolutionary health promotion

scientific article

Evolutionary molecular medicine

scientific article published on 29 April 2012

Evolutionary public health: introducing the concept

scientific article published on 27 July 2017

Flooding in vivo as research tool and treatment method for phobias: a preliminary report

scientific article published in January 1976

Good Reasons for Bad Feelings

Group behavioral therapy of obsessive-compulsive disorder: seven vs. twelve-week outcomes

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

How antipanic drugs might work

scientific article

How evolutionary psychiatry can advance psychopharmacology

scientific article published in January 2019

How is Darwinian medicine useful?

scientific article

Human compulsivity: A perspective from evolutionary medicine

scientific article published on 10 December 2015

Is depression an adaptation?

scientific article (publication date: 2000)

Is low mood an adaptation? Evidence for subtypes with symptoms that match precipitants.

scientific article

Letter: Cholinergic side-effects associated with deanol ⬇️

scientific article published on July 3, 1976

Life table tests of evolutionary theories of senescence

scientific article published on 01 January 1988

Maladaptation and natural selection.

scientific article

Marital quality and psychological adjustment to widowhood among older adults: a longitudinal analysis

scientific article published in July 2000

Medicine Needs Evolution

scientific article published in Science

Methodological innovations in the National Survey of American Life.

scientific article

Motivation and melancholy: a darwinian perspective.

scientific article

Natural selection and the elusiveness of happiness

scientific article

Natural selection, mental modules and intelligence.

scientific article

Neuroendocrine responses to laboratory panic: cognitive intervention in the doxapram model

scientific article published in May 1996

On the difficulty of defining disease: a Darwinian perspective

scientific article

Panic disorder: a test of the separation anxiety hypothesis

scientific article published on January 1986

Pentagastrin infusions in patients with panic disorder. I. Symptoms and cardiovascular responses

scientific article published in July 1994

Peripheral catecholamine levels and the symptoms of anxiety: studies in patients with and without pheochromocytoma

scientific article published in March 1990

Persistent respiratory irregularity in patients with panic disorder.

scientific article published in April 2001

Phobic anxiety does not affect plasma levels of thyroid stimulating hormone in man.

scientific article published in January 1982

Plasma growth hormone: effect of anxiety during flooding in vivo ⬇️

scientific article published on April 1, 1979

Platelet alpha 2-adrenergic receptor binding and plasma catecholamines. Before and during imipramine treatment in patients with panic anxiety

scientific article

Platelet alpha 2-adrenoreceptors, catecholamines, hemodynamic variables, and anxiety in panic patients and their asymptomatic relatives

scientific article published on 01 July 1996

Pretreatment nausea in cancer chemotherapy: a conditioned response?

scientific article published in January 1980

Prevalence and distribution of major depressive disorder in African Americans, Caribbean blacks, and non-Hispanic whites: results from the National Survey of American Life

scientific article published in March 2007

Prospective patterns of resilience and maladjustment during widowhood.

scientific article

Providing social support may be more beneficial than receiving it: results from a prospective study of mortality

scientific article published in July 2003

Proximate and evolutionary studies of anxiety, stress and depression: synergy at the interface

scientific article

Pseudohallucinations in cancer chemotherapy patients

scientific article published on 01 April 1983

Psychoactive Drug Use in Evolutionary Perspective ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 3 October 1997)

Psychobiology of anxiety and anxiety disorders.

scientific article

Psychological adjustment to sudden and anticipated spousal loss among older widowed persons

scientific article published in July 2001

Race, ethnicity, and the use of services for mental disorders: results from the National Survey of American Life

scientific article published in April 2007

Religion and emotional compensation: results from a prospective study of widowhood

scientific article published in September 2004

Resilience to loss and chronic grief: a prospective study from preloss to 18-months postloss

scientific article

Respiratory psychophysiology and anxiety: cognitive intervention in the doxapram model of panic

scientific article published on 01 July 1996

Risk perception by patients with anxiety disorders

scientific article published on 01 August 1994

Serotonin transporter and GABAA alpha 6 receptor variants are associated with neuroticism

scientific article

Social selection is a powerful explanation for prosociality

scientific article published in January 2016

Standardization of the fear survey schedule based upon patients with DSM-III anxiety disorders

scientific article published in June 1984

Stimulation of corticotropin release by pentagastrin in normal subjects and patients with panic disorder

scientific article published in June 1991

Symptom profiles of patients with DSM-III anxiety disorders

scientific article published in September 1986

Systemic hormonal and physiological abnormalities in anxiety disorders

scientific article published on January 1988

Teleological reasoning, not acceptance of evolution, impacts students’ ability to learn natural selection

Ten questions for evolutionary studies of disease vulnerability.

scientific article

The Effect of Widowhood on Older Adults' Social Participation

scientific article published on 01 August 2002

The National Survey of American Life: a study of racial, ethnic and cultural influences on mental disorders and mental health.

scientific article

The Smoke Detector Principle

The dawn of Darwinian medicine

scientific article

The dexamethasone suppression test in panic disorder and agoraphobia

scientific article

The differential influence of life stress on individual symptoms of depression

scientific article published on 4 February 2015

The effects of central cholecystokinin receptor blockade on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal and symptomatic responses to overnight withdrawal from alprazolam

scientific article published on 01 January 1995

The evolution of evolutionary molecular medicine: genomics are transforming evolutionary biology into a science with new importance for modern medicine

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

The evolutionary functions of repression and the ego defenses

scientific article published in January 1990

The evolutionary significance of depressive symptoms: different adverse situations lead to different depressive symptom patterns.

scientific article published in August 2006

The great opportunity: Evolutionary applications to medicine and public health

scientific article

The impact of individual depressive symptoms on impairment of psychosocial functioning

scientific article

The smoke detector principle. Natural selection and the regulation of defensive responses.

scientific article published in May 2001

The smoke detector principle: Signal detection and optimal defense regulation

scientific article published on 04 December 2018

The state of evolutionary medicine in undergraduate education.

scientific article published on 9 May 2019

The status of evolutionary medicine education in North American medical schools

scientific article

Threat detection, precautionary responses, and anxiety disorders ⬇️

scientific article published on December 13, 2010

Tinbergen's four questions, organized: a response to Bateson and Laland

scientific article

Tinbergen's four questions: Two proximate, two evolutionary

scientific article published on 06 December 2018

Towards a genuinely medical model for psychiatric nosology

scientific article

Treatment of panic-like attacks with a long-acting analogue of somatostatin.

scientific article published on April 1990

Urinary catecholamines and mitral valve prolapse in panic-anxiety patients

scientific article

Vomiting is not an adaption for glaucoma (and Darwinian medicine is difficult)

scientific article published on 29 May 2008

What are 'good' depression symptoms? Comparing the centrality of DSM and non-DSM symptoms of depression in a network analysis

scientific article published in October 2015

What evolutionary biology offers public health.

scientific article published in February 2008

Why Has Natural Selection Left Us So Vulnerable to Anxiety and Mood Disorders? ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 December 2011

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