Personality and Psychopathology | Marco Del Giudice | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #39
Why do autism and schizophrenia exist? What are 'fast and slow' life history strategies? What are controversies and opportunities facing the field of evolutionary psychiatry? In this episode, we go de...
24 Jan 20252h 22min
Understanding Support Networks | Alessandra Cassar | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #38
Humans rely on each other. Mothers, in particular, need help raising children. In this episode we discuss Professor Alessandra Cassar's work seeking to understand how maternal depression relates to ga...
25 Nov 20241h 11min
Susceptibility to Substance Addiction | Tom Carpenter | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #37
Why have humans evolved tendencies for substance addiction? In this episode, Adam and Tom discuss the evolutionary explanations for these vulnerabilities. The discussion is based on their paper "Evolu...
17 Nov 202445min
Evolved Behavioural Addictions | Giuseppe Pierpaolo Merola | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #36
Social media, video games, gambling... why are some activities so rewarding that we become addicted? In this episode, we discuss the reason humans are susceptible to 'behavioural addictions', referenc...
12 Nov 20241h 9min
Why Depression Exists | Ed Hagen | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #35
Depression is often linked to adversity: why would it reliably appear in such conditions? Ed Hagen has spent over forty years wondering about this question, and is one of the world's foremost research...
3 Nov 20241h 5min
Evolutionary Storytelling | Adam Hunt | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #34
The past is invisible - how are we supposed to know the truth behind our evolutionary history? In this episode, Adam Hunt discusses the complexity of the reality behind our evolution, and the limits o...
28 Okt 202454min
Mental Health in the Jungle | Camila Scaff | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #33
In the Amazon rainforest, how would mental illness manifest? What is life in non-industrialised societies like? Camila Scaff discusses social life, loneliness, and her journey investigating mental hea...
22 Okt 20241h 7min
Combat Stress and PTSD | Matt Zefferman | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #32
Why does severe trauma lead to PTSD? This episode considers work on combat stress and PTSD symptoms in Turkana warriors of North West Kenya, and how it relates to evolutionary explanations of PTSD sym...
15 Okt 20241h 4min
