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Articles and chapters organized chronologically
Nesse RM: Psychology and the teaching of English
composition.
Curtis GC, Nesse RM, Buxton M, Wright
J, Lippman D: Flooding in vivo as research tool and
treatment methods for phobias: A preliminary report. Comparative Psychiatry, 17:153-160, 1976.
Curtis GC, Buxton M, Lippman
D, Nesse RM, Wright J: "Flooding in vivo" during the circadian phase
of minimal cortisol secretion: Anxiety and therapeutic success without adrenal
cortical activation. Biological
Psychiatry, 11:101-107, 1976.
Nesse RM, Carroll BJ; Cholinergic side-effects
associated with deanol, (letter). Lancet, 11:50-51, 1976.
Curtis GC, Nesse RM, Buxton
M, Lippman D: Anxiety and plasma cortisol at the
crest of the circadian cycle: Reappraisal of a classical hypothesis. Psychosomatic Medicine, 40:368-378,
1978.
Curtis GC, Nesse RM, Buxton
M, Lippman D: Plasma Growth hormone: Effect of
anxiety during flooding in vivo. American
Journal of Psychiatry, 136:410-414, 1979.
Nesse RM, Curtis GC, Brown GM, Rubin
RT: Anxiety induced by flooding therapy for phobias does not elicit prolactin secretory response.
Psychosomatic Medicine, 42:25-31,
1980.
Nesse RM, Curtis GC, Brown
GM: Phobic anxiety does not affect plasma levels of thyroid stimulating hormone
in man. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 7:69-74, 1982.
Curtis GC, Cameron OG, Nesse RM: The dexamethasone suppression test in panic disorder and
agoraphobia. American Journal of
Psychiatry, 139:1043-1046, 1982.
Nesse RM, Carli T, Curtis
GC, Kleinman PD: Pseudohallucinations
in cancer chemotherapy patients. American
Journal of Psychiatry, 140:483-485, 1983.
Nesse RM: The evolution of senescence (letter). The
Tomlin P, Thyer BA, Curtis
GC, Nesse RM, Cameron OC, Wright P: Standardization of
the fear survey schedule based upon patients with DSM-
Nesse
RM: An evolutionary perspective on psychiatry. Comparative Psychiatry 25:575-580, 1984.
Cameron OC, Smith CB, Hollingsworth PJ, Nesse RM,
Curtis GC: Platelet alpha-2 adrenergic receptor binding and plasma catecholamines before and during imipramine
treatment in patients with panic anxiety. Archives
of General Psychiatry 41:1144-1148, 1985.
Thyer BA, Nesse RM, Cameron OG, Curtis
GC: Agoraphobia: A test of the separation anxiety hypothesis. Behavioral Research Therapy, 23:75-78,
1985.
Thyer BA, Parrish RT, Curtis GC, Nesse RM, Cameron OG:
Ages of onset of DSM-
Nesse RM, Cameron OG, Buda AJ, McCann DS, Curtis GC, Huber-Smith M: Urinary catecholamines
and mitral valve prolapse
in panic anxiety patients. Psychiatry
Research, 14:67-74, 1985.
Rainey JR, Nesse RM: Psychobiology of anxiety and
anxiety disorders. In Psychiatric
Clinics of
Thyer BA, Himle J, Curtis GC,
Cameron OG, Nesse RM: A comparison of panic disorder and agoraphobia with panic
attacks. Comparative Psychiatry,
26:208-214, 1985.
Thyer BA, Tonlin P, Curtis GC,
Cameron OG, Nesse RM: Diagnostic and gender differences in the expressed fears
of anxious patients. Journal of Behavioral Therapy and Experimental
Psychiatry 16:111-115, 1985.
Thyer BA, Parrish RT, Himle J,
Cameron OG, Curtis GC, Nesse RM: Alcohol abuse among clinically anxious
patients. Behavioral Research Therapy,
24 :357-359, l986.
Nesse RM: An evolutionary perspective on panic
disorder and agoraphobia. Ethology and
Sociobiology 8: 73S-83S, l987.
Huber-Smith MJ, Nesse RM, Maxhan
M, McCann D: Evaluation of plasma 3-methoxy-4-hydroxyphenylglycol (MHPG). Journal of Chromatography, 377:91-99,
1986.
Thyer BA, Nesse RM, Curtis GC, Cameron
OG: Panic disorder: a test of the separation anxiety hypothesis. Behavioral Research Therapy
, 24(2):209-211, 1986.
Cameron OG, Thyer BA,
Fechner S, Curtis GC, Nesse RM: Behavior therapy of
phobias: Predictors of outcome, (letter) Psychiatry
Research 19: 245-246, l986.
Cameron OG, Thyer BA, Nesse
RM, Curtis GC: Symptom profiles of DSM-
Nesse RM, Curtis GC, Cameron, OG, Lee M: How antipanic drugs might work. (letter)
American Journal of Psychiatry,
143:945, l986.
Nesse RM: An evolutionary perspective on senescence. Philosophy and Medicine, 26:45-64,
Ethical Dimensions of Geriatric Care, Spicker SF, Ingman SR, Lawson IR (eds), D. Ridel, l987.
Cameron OG, Nesse RM: Systemic hormonal and
physiological abnormalities in anxiety disorders: A review. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 13:287-307, 1988.
Nesse RM: Panic disorder: An evolutionary view. Psychiatric Annals, 18:8: 478-483, 1988.
Modell JG, Himle J, Nesse RM, Mountz JM, Schmaltz S: Sequential trials of fluoxetine, phenelzine, and tranylcypromine in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive
disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders,
3:287-293, 1989.
Low
BS, Nesse RM: Summary of the Evolution and Human Behavior Conferences:
Nesse
RM: Evolutionary explanations of emotions. Human
Nature, 1: 261-289, 1990.
Abelson, JA, Nesse RM, Vinik,
A: Treatment of panic-like attacks with a long-acting
analogue of somatostatin. Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology, 10: 128-132, 1990.
Abelson, JL, Nesse RM: Cholecystokinin-4 and panic,
(letter). Archives of General Psychiatry
47(4): 395, 1990.
Nesse RM: Human nature and the Holy Grail
(commentary). Behavioral
and Brain Sciences, 14 (2), 312-313, 1991.
Nesse RM: What is
mood for? Psycholoquy 2: Issue 9.2, November 24, 1991.
Nesse RM: Mood as a communication medium. Psycholoquy 3:2, 1992.
Nesse RM: Social functions of mood: Reply to Sloman. Psycholoquy 3:4,
1992
Nesse RM: Over-valuation of the emotion-mood
distinction:. Psycholoquy 3:6,
1992
Nesse RM: Under-valuation of the emotion-mood
distinction. Psycholoquy 3: 12, 1992.
Nesse RM: Ethology to the rescue: Reply to Plutchik. Psycholoquy 3:12, 1992
Krone KP, Himle JA, Nesse RM: A standardized behavioral group treatment program
for obsessive-compulsive disorder: preliminary outcomes. Behavior Research and
Therapy, 29:627-631, 1991.
Abelson JA, Nesse RM, Vinik
A: Stimulation of corticotrophin release by pentagastrin
in normal subjects and patients with panic disorder. Biological Psychiatry, 1991; 29:1220-1223.
(see also http://www.depression.org.uk/main/infocentre/anxiety_center/general10.pdf)
Nesse
RM: Why is group selection such a problem? Behavior and Brain Science, 17 (4)
633-634, 1994.
Nesse
RM: Computer emotions and mental software. Social
Neuroscience Bulletin 7(2): 36-37, 1994.
Abelson JL, Nesse RM: Pentagastric
infusions in patients with panic disorder I. Symptoms and cardiovascular
responses. Biological Psychiatry 36:
73-83, 1994.
Abelson JL, Nesse RM, Vinik,
I, Aaron I: Pentagastric infusions in patients with
panic disorder II. Neuroendocrinology. Biological Psychiatry 36: 84-96, 1994.
Abelson JL, Curtis GC, Nesse RN, Fantone
R, Pyke RE, Bammert Adams
J: The effects of central cholecystokinin receptor
blockade on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal and symptomatic responses to
overnight withdrawal from alprazolam. Biological Psychiatry , 37:56-59, 1995.
Schweitzer PB, Nesse RM, Fantone
RF, Curtis GC: Outcomes of group cognitive behavioral training in the treatment
of panic disorder and agoraphobia. Journal
of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association, 1:83-91, 1995.
Nesse RM, Abelson JL: Natural selection and fear
regulation mechanisms. Behavioral and
Brain Sciences, 18(2):309-310, 1995.
Cameron OG, Smith CB, Nesse RM, Hill EM,
Hollingsworth PJ, Abelson JA, Hariharan M, Curtis,
GC: Platelet Alpha2-Adrenoreceptors, Catecholamines, Hemodynamic Variables, and Anxiety in Panic Patients and
Their Asymptomatic Relatives. Psychosomatic
Medicine, 58:289-301, 1996.
Abelson JL, Nesse RM, Weg,
JG, Curtis GC: Respiratory Psychophysiology and Anxiety: Cognitive Intervention
in the Doxapram Model of Panic. Psychosomatic Medicine, 58:302-313, 1996.
Nesse
RM, Berridge K Psychoactive drug use in evolutionary perspective. Science, 277: 63-65, 1997.
Young EA, Abelson JL, Curtis GC, Nesse RM Childhood
adversity and vulnerability to mood and anxiety disorders. Depression 5: 66-72, 1997.
Young EA,
Nesse RM, Weder, A, & Julius, S Anxiety and cardiovascular reactivity in
the Tecumseh population.
Journal of Hypertension, 16(1727-1733), 1998.
Nesse
RM, Williams, GC On Darwinian medicine. Life
Science Research 3 (1): 1-17, 1999.
Nesse
RM, The evolution of hope and despair. Social Research, 66 (2): 429-469,
1999.
Nesse
RM Is depression an adaptation? Archives of General Psychiatry, 57: 14-20, 2000.
Nesse, RM (ed.): Evolution
and the Capacity for Commitment, Russell Sage Press, New York, 2001.
[Book]
Nesse,
RM: How is Darwinian medicine useful? Western Medical Journal, 174:
358-359, 2001.
Nesse,
RM: Medicine's missing basic science. The New Physician, Dec. 2001: 8-10.
Nesse RM. Evolution and Addiction. Addiction 97
(4):470-1, 2002.
Sen S, Nesse RM, Stoltenberg SF, Li S, Gleiberman
L, Chakravarti A, Weder AB and Burmeister M:
Burmeister M: A BDNF Coding Variant is Associated with the NEO-Personality
Domain Neuroticism, a Risk Factor for Depression. Neuropsychopharmacology 28, 397–401,
2003.
Brown, S. L., Nesse, R. M., House, J. S., & Utz, R. Religion and Emotional Compensation: Results from a
Prospective Study of Widowhood. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin,
30(9): 1165-1174, 2004.
Utz R, Reidy
E, Carr D, Nesse RM, Wortman CB: The Daily Consequences of Widowhood: The Role
of Gender and Intergenerational Transfers on subsequent Housework Performance. Journal
of Family Issues 24 (5):683-712, 2004.
Jackson,
J. S., Torres, M., Caldwell, C. H., Neighbors, H. W., Nesse, R. M., Taylor, R.
J., Trierweiler, S. J., Williams, D. W. (2004). The
National Survey of American Life: a study of racial, ethnic and cultural influences
on mental disorders and mental health. International Journal of Methods in
Psychiatric Research, 13:4 pp. 196-207
Nesse,
RM: Maladaptation and natural selection. Quarterly Review of Biology 80(1):62-70,
2005.
Nesse RM,
Weder, A: What Evolutionary Medicine Offers to Endothelium
Researchers. For, The Endothelium: A Comprehensive Reference, William Aird,
Editor, Cambridge University Press, in press.
Nesse RM, Bhatnagar S,
Young, E: The evolutionary origins and functions of the stress response, The Encyclopedia of Stress, Second Edition,
Academic Press, NY, in press.
Kruger
DJ, Nesse RM: An evolutionary life history understanding of sex differences in
human mortality rates. Human Nature,74 (1): 74-97, 2006. (send
email to request password).
Nesse
RM, Stearns SC, Omenn GS: 2006 Medicine needs
evolution (editorial). Science 311:1071.
Oyserman D, Uskul A, Yoder N, Nesse
R, Williams D: Unfair treatment and self-regulatory focus. Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology, in press.
Williams SR,, Gonzalez HM, Neighbors HW, Nesse RM,
Abelson JM, Sweetman J, Jackson JS: Prevalence and Distribution of Major
Depressive Disorder among African Americans, Caribbean Blacks and Non-Hispanic
Whites: Results from the National Survey of American Life (NSAL). Archives of General Psychiatry, in
press.
Ha J, Carr D, Utz RL, Nesse
RM Older Adults’ Perceptions of Intergenerational Support After Widowhood
How Do Men and Women Differ? Journal of
Family Issues 27 (1): 3-10, 2006
Kruger, DJ, Nesse, RM: An evolutionary framework for
understanding sex differences in Croatian mortality rates. Psychological Topics, 15 (2): 351-364, 2006.
Kruger DJ, Nesse RM: Economic transition, male
competition, and sex differences in mortality rates. Evolutionary Psychology 5(2): 411-427, 2007.
Publications
in magazines and newspapers (Selected)
Nesse RM, Williams GC: Nothing to sneeze at: allergy
in evolutionary perspective. The Sciences,
pp. 34-38, Nov./Dec. 1994.
Nesse RM: Is there a Doctor in the House.
Nesse RM:
Sickness can be Good for You. Times Higher Education Supplement (London), June 9, 1995.
Nesse
RM: When Bad Genes Happen to Good People. Technology
Review May/June, 1995, p. 31-40.
Nesse RM: Darwinism and Psychiatry. Harvard Mental Health
Letter, 14:7, 1997.
Recorded lecture, available on the web
Darwinian Medicine: The
Pleasures and Perils of New Questions
Lecture at a Symposium: Darwinian Evolution Across
the Disciplines Realplayer version of talks
from a Dartmouth Interdisciplinary Symposium October 29-30, 1999,
Evolution: The missing basic science that brings psychiatry coherence and deeper empathy. American Psychiatric Association Distinguished Psychiatrist Lecture 2005, recorded in MP3. (right click to download)
If evolution is so great, why is depression so common? Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, 2005. QuickTime movie.