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The ethology of psychiatric populations
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Konrad Lorenz
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iii-v
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The ethology of psychiatric populations: An introduction
Abstract: Ethology and psychiatry are separate disciplines that deal with a common subject— behavior—each according to its own orientation. The collection of articles in this special supplementary iss...
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Jay R. Feierman
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1-8
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Physiological regulation-deregulation and psychiatric disorders
Abstract: This article discusses regulation-deregulation theory, a theory that integrates both old and new concepts to explain behavior-physiology interactions and changes in psychiatric disorder prob...
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Michael T. McGuire,
Alfonso Troisi
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9-25
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A biological meaningful classification in child psychiatry that is based upon ethological methods
Abstract: An ethological approach to behavior quantification and classification in child psychiatry is described using the prototype approach to concept formation, in which examples are considered exe...
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Herman Dienske,
Jannie A.R. Sanders-Woudstra,
Gerrit de Jonge
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27-45
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Anorexia nervosa, amenorrhea, and adaptation
Abstract: Female mammals under stress or in poor physical condition often delay puberty or otherwise suppress reproduction. This capacity is adaptive because it enables females to avoid reproduction w...
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Michele K. Surbey
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47-61
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Sociopathy as an adaptation
Abstract: Sociopathy in males and hysteria (Briquet's syndrome) in females very closely fit predictions from a model of characteristics of cheaters or nonreciprocators in a complex social system. Such...
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Henry C. Harpending,
Jay Sobus
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63-72
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An evolutionary perspective on panic disorder and agoraphobia
Abstract: Panic, when viewed ethologically, is not pathological in itself; it is rather an adaptation that evolved to facilitate escape in dangerous situations. Patients with panic disorder have panic...
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Randolph M. Nesse
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73-83
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Depression as yielding behavior: An animal model based on Schjelderup-Ebbe's pecking order
Abstract: Our evolutionary model of depressive mood change based on social competition postulates that depression evolved as the yielding component, or yielding subroutine (YS), of ritual agonistic be...
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John S. Price,
Leon Sloman
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85-98
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Losing behavior (yielding subroutine) and human depression: Proximate and selective mechanisms
Abstract: In this article, we present what we believe to be some of the proximate and selective mechanisms that allowed certain types of human depression to have evolved. Certain adult depressive pati...
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Leon Sloman,
John S. Price
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99-109
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On the utility of ethological data in psychiatric research: The example of facial behavior in schizophrenia
Abstract: This article utilizes the example of an investigation into the psychiatric problem of affective disturbance in schizophrenia in order to contrast the results obtained by two different data-g...
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Roger K. Pitman,
Bryan Kolb,
Scott P. Orr,
Jacob deJong,
Santharam Yadati,
Man Mohan Singh
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111-116
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The prediction of short- and long-term improvement in depressive patients: Ethological methods of observing behavior versus clinical ratings
Abstract: A considerable percentage of depressed patients do not respond to antidepressant treatment. Early indicators of prognosis clearly are needed. The aims of this study are to examine (1) whethe...
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Antoinette L. Bouhuys,
Domien G.M. Beersma,
Rudi H. van den Hoofdakker,
Albert Roossien
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117-130
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Toward an etho-psychology: A phylogenetic tree of behavioral capabilities proposed as a common basis for communication between current theories in psychology and psychiatry
Abstract: Behavior, emotion, and intellect are capabilities that result from physiological processes in nerve tissues. One can therefore argue that phylogenetic laws are valid for these capabilities a...
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Gerhard Medicus
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131-150
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Gene-culture coevolution and the strategies of psychiatric healing
Abstract: Gene-culture transmission of behavior refers to a mode of psychological development through which genetic information makes certain culture traits more learnable than others. This article pr...
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Christine H. Littlefield,
Charles J. Lumsden
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151-163
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