Depression's Function: Disengaging | Adam Hunt | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #50

Depression's Function: Disengaging | Adam Hunt | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #50

Why do we get depressed? Is depression really functional? In this episode, Adam discusses an overarching hypothesis which captures many existing evolutionary hypotheses: that depression's original function is to disengage us from life.Dr Adam Hunt is a researcher in the emerging field of evolutionary psychiatry at the Leverhulme Center for Human Evolutionary Studies at the University of Cambridge. Since 2019 he has served on the executive committee of the Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. He also sits on the board of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. He is the founding chair of the Foundation for Evolution and Mental Health. His PhD thesis entitled ‘Evolving Evolutionary Psychiatry and Explaining Neurodiversity’ received Summa Cumme Laude from the University of Zurich in spring 2024.He has published multiple academic articles in journals such as Biological Reviews, Autism Research and Evolutionary Human Sciences on a range of topics, including how evolutionary psychiatry supports the concept of neurodiversity and how evolutionary theory explains individual differences in cognition and dissolves the distinction between psychopathology and personality. He has lectured and trained psychiatrists and psychotherapists in evolutionary psychiatry.This podcast is financially supported by the Human Ecology Group of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich.

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Suffering's Signal | Kristen Syme | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #23

Suffering's Signal | Kristen Syme | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #23

Kristen Syme is an Assistant Professor of Suicide and Suicide Prevention at Leiden University. She is an evolutionary anthropologist who works on understanding suicidal and self harm behavior from an ...

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What is Disease? | Adam Hunt | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #22 (Season 2)

What is Disease? | Adam Hunt | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #22 (Season 2)

Season 2 of the Evolving Psychiatry Podcast begins with a brief comment on what's to come in the season, as Adam interviews psychiatrists and researchers who work in evolutionary psychiatry. Adam then...

11 Sep 202323min

Evolutionary Clinical Care | Alfonso Troisi | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #21

Evolutionary Clinical Care | Alfonso Troisi | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #21

Alfonso Troisi discusses how an evolutionary perspective should inform our measurement of clinical outcomes, the potential of evolutionary thinking to advance care, and his experience treating patient...

26 Sep 202210min

Evolution and Crime | Adam Hunt | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #20

Evolution and Crime | Adam Hunt | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #20

Adam Hunt considers how evolutionary thinking helps us understand criminal behaviour, circumstances leading to crime, blameworthiness and the chance to improve social outcomes. This episode is based ...

25 Sep 202217min

Schizophrenia and Evolution | Martin Brüne | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #19

Schizophrenia and Evolution | Martin Brüne | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #19

Martin Brüne talks through the paradox of why schizophrenia persists, how his view on its persistence has changed over the decades, and how an evolutionary approach informs us regarding treatment and ...

24 Sep 202216min

Psychopharmacology and Evolution | Paul St-John Smith | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #18

Psychopharmacology and Evolution | Paul St-John Smith | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #18

Paul St-John Smith gives an evolutionary psychiatrist's perspective on using pharmaceuticals in treatment, thinks about the limits of rating scales and the usefulness of animal models, and how evoluti...

23 Sep 202229min

Evolution and Alzheimer's | Molly Fox | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #17

Evolution and Alzheimer's | Molly Fox | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #17

Molly Fox gives an insight into why evolution has left us vulnerable to Alzheimer's, what odd aspects of modern life may lead to increased rates of Alzheimer's, and how female reproductive health are ...

22 Sep 202214min

Child Maltreatment in Evolution | Daniela Sieff | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #16

Child Maltreatment in Evolution | Daniela Sieff | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #16

Daniela Sieff talks about the difficulties and differences of rearing children in hunter gatherer societies and how child maltreatment can follow. She considers what this means for understanding, prev...

21 Sep 202215min

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