• Three articles on anxiety and depression

    Updated: 2011-12-21 20:33:46
    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Evolutionary biology within medicine within the BMJ Evolutionary Variation as a Lead Compound’ Three articles on anxiety and depression Dec 21st , 2011 by The Editors The December issue of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry has three open access articles on evolutionary approaches to depression and anxiety . disorders Why Has Natural Selection Left Us So Vulnerable to Anxiety and Mood Disorders Randolph M Nesse Anxiety : An Evolutionary Approach Melissa Bateson , Ben Brilot , Daniel Nettle Evolutionary Theories of Depression : A Critical Review Edward H Hagen Posted in evolutionary medicine Trackback URI Comments RSS Leave a Reply Name Real Name required Mail hidden required Website

  • Evolutionary biology within medicine…within the BMJ

    Updated: 2011-12-21 13:18:04
    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Case Studies : Scurvy and Cancer Three articles on anxiety and depression Evolutionary biology within medicine within the BMJ Dec 21st , 2011 by The Editors Evolutionary biology within medicine : a perspective of growing value By Peter D Gluckman and Carl T Bergstrom BMJ 2011 343 doi : 10.1136 bmj.d7671 Published 19 December 2011 In the preface to his 1794 treatise Zoonomia perhaps the first book in English to present concepts from which modern evolutionary thought eventually arose—Erasmus Darwin , scientist and grandfather of Charles Darwin , wrote that the purpose of such studies is to elucidate the origins of disease . Yet evolutionary biology has had little explicit role in the

  • Case Studies: Scurvy and Cancer

    Updated: 2011-12-20 14:27:37
    : Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Evolution of cooperation and cheating in bacteria Evolutionary biology within medicine within the BMJ Case Studies : Scurvy and Cancer Dec 20th , 2011 by The Editors Developing a Curriculum for Evolutionary Medicine : Case Studies of Scurvy and Female Reproductive Tract Cancers By Tatjana Buklijas Felicia M . Low Alan S . Beedle Peter D . Gluckman Evo Edu Outreach   DOI 10.1007 s12052-011-0374-x Abstract Most early evolutionary thinkers came from medicine , yet evolution has had a checkered history in medical education . It is only in the last few decades that serious efforts have begun to be made to integrate evolutionary biology into the medical curriculum . However , it is not

  • Darwinian Medicine at 20–Article in Science

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    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Signals of selection by climate variations Evolution of cooperation and cheating in bacteria Darwinian Medicine at 20–Article in Science Dec 15th , 2011 by The Editors Darwinian Medicine’s Drawn-Out Dawn  By  Elizabeth Pennisi Science 16 December 2011 : Vol . 334 no . 6062 pp . 1486-1487    DOI : 10.1126 science.334.6062.1486 Ever since Darwin , physicians have wondered why humans haven’t evolved to be healthier . Blame natural selection itself , says Randolph Nesse a psychiatrist at the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor . Twenty years ago , Nesse and evolutionary biologist George Williams attributed our vulnerability to disease to our evolutionary history . The most widely

  • Selection versus transmission and the levels of selection, by Steve Frank

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    , Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Evolutionary Perspective on Alzheimer’s Disease Signals of selection by climate variations Selection versus transmission and the levels of selection , by Steve Frank Dec 13th , 2011 by The Editors Frank SA : Natural selection . III . Selection versus transmission and the levels of selection Journal of Evolutionary Biology 2011:DOI : 10.1111 j.1420-9101.2011.02431.x George Williams defined an evolutionary unit as hereditary information for which the selection bias between competing units dominates the informational decay caused by imperfect transmission . In this article , I extend Williams’ approach to show that the ratio of selection bias to transmission bias provides a unifying

  • Evolutionary Perspective on Alzheimer’s Disease

    Updated: 2011-12-10 14:38:04
    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Darwinian Dentistry Selection versus transmission and the levels of selection , by Steve Frank Evolutionary Perspective on Alzheimer’s Disease Dec 10th , 2011 by The Editors Some evolutionary perspectives on Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis and pathology By Daniel J . Glass and Steven E . Arnold Alzheimer’s and Dementia doi:10.1016 j.jalz.2011.05.2408 Abstract There is increasing urgency to develop effective prevention and treatment for Alzheimer’s disease AD as the aging population swells . Yet , our understanding remains limited for the elemental pathophysiological mechanisms of AD dementia that may be causal , compensatory , or epiphenomenal . To this end , we consider AD and why

  • Darwinian Dentistry

    Updated: 2011-12-06 18:41:36
    Home About People Resources Meetings courses The Evolution Medicine Review bridging the gap Posts Comments Report from Evolutionary Medicine Workshop in Warsaw Evolutionary Perspective on Alzheimer’s Disease Darwinian Dentistry Dec 6th , 2011 by The Editors Darwinian Dentistry : An Evolutionary Perspective on Malocclusion , Part I By Kevin Boyd Journal of the American Orthodontic Society Nov Dec 2011, p 34-39. This open access article argues that many modern dental problems , especially caries and malocclusion , arise from aspects of modern environments , especially our changed . diets Posted in evolutionary medicine Trackback URI Comments RSS Leave a Reply Name Real Name required Mail hidden required Website optional Notify me of followup comments via e-mail Subscribe via RSS or e-mail

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