Rather than running from emotions, an ASU professor's new book shows that emotions may run us. As a professor of life sciences and director for the Center for Evolution and Medicine as well as a ...

One of the worlds most respected psychiatrists provides a much-needed new evolutionary framework for making sense of mental illness With his classic book Why We Get Sick, Randolph Nesse established ...

A new approach to mental disorder Randolph Nesse s insightful book suggests that conditions such as anxiety and depression have a clear evolutionary purpose This intriguing book turns some age old ...

In a recent presentation on our campus, renowned psychiatrist Randolph Nesse told a simple anecdote that speaks volumes about the nature of happiness. The story was essentially this: A while back, ...

Nearly one in five Americans currently suffers from a mental illness, and roughly half of us will be diagnosed with one at some point in our lives. Yet, these occurrences may have nothing to do with a ...

Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights From the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry Randolph M. Nesse Dutton (2019) Globally, the burden of depression and other mental-health conditions is on the ...