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Nesse RM: Psychology and the teaching of English
composition. Minnesota English Journal, Spring, 1969.
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, Carli T, Curtis GC, Kleinman
PD: Pretreatment nausea in cancer chemotherapy: A conditioned response? Psychosomatic Medicine.,
42:33-36, 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, Cameron OG, Curtis GC, McCann DS, Huber-Smith MS: Adrenergic function in
patients with panic anxiety. Archives of
General Psychiatry, 41:771-776, 1984.
Nesse RM: The evolution of senescence (letter). The New
England Journal of Medicine, 310:660, 1984.
Tomlin P, Thyer BA, Curtis
GC, Nesse RM, Cameron OC, Wright P: Standardization of
the fear survey schedule based upon patients with DSM-III
anxiety disorders. Journal of Behavioral
Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 15:123-126, 1984.
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.
Nesse
RM, Curtis GC, Thyer BA, McCann D, Huber-Smith, MJ:
Endocrine and cardiovascular responses during phobic anxiety. Psychosomatic Medicine, 47:320-332,
1985.
Thyer BA, Nesse RM, Cameron OG, Curtis
GC: Agoraphobia: A test of the separation anxiety hypothesis. Behavioral Research Therapy, 23:75-78,
1985.
Starkman
MN, Zelnik T, Nesse RM,
Cameron OC: Anxiety in patients with pheochromocytoma.
Archives of Internal Medicine,
145:248-252, 1985.
Thyer BA, Parrish RT, Curtis GC, Nesse RM, Cameron OG:
Ages of onset of DSM-III anxiety
disorders. Comparative Psychiatry, 26:113-122,
1985.
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 North America, Vol 8, pp. 133-144, 1985. Curtis GC, Thyer BA, Rainey J (eds);
Saunders, Philadelphia.
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.
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-III anxiety disorders. American Journal of Psychiatry, 143(9)L
1132-1137, l986.
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 panic disorder and agoraphobia. Ethology and Sociobiology;8:73S-83S, 1987.
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.
Nesse
RM: Life table tests of evolutionary theories of senescence, Experimental Gerontology 23: 445-453,
1988.
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: Ann Arbor, Michigan,
April and October 1988. Ethology and
Sociobiology, 10:457-465, 1989.
Nesse
RM, Silverman A, Bortz A: Sex differences in ability
to recognize family resemblance. Ethology
and Sociobiology, 11: 11-21, 1990.
Starkman
MN, Cameron OG, Nesse RM, Zelnik T: Peripheral catecholamine levels and the symptoms
of anxiety: studies in patients with and without pheochromocytoma.
Psychosomatic Medicine, 52: 129-142,
1990.
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: The evolutionary function of repression and the ego defenses. Journal of the American Academy of
Psychoanalysis 18:260-286, 1990.
Williams
GW, Nesse RM: The dawn of Darwinian medicine. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 66:1-22, 1991.
Nesse
RM: Psychiatry, in The Sociobiological
Imagination. Edited by Mary Maxwell. New York:
SUNY Press, pp. 23-40, 1991.
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.
Replies to
commentaries:
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.
Nesse
RM: What good is feeling bad? The evolutionary utility of
psychic pain. The Sciences,
30-37, Nov./Dec. 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.
Kloss RJ, Nesse RM: Trisomy:
Chromosome competition or maternal strategy? Increase of trisomy
incidence with increasing maternal age does not result from competition between
chromosomes. Ethology and Sociobiology 13:283-287,
1992.
Nesse
RM, Lloyd, AT: The Evolution of Psychodynamic Mechanisms, in The
Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. Edited by Barkow J, Cosmides L and Tooby
J. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, pp. 601-626, 1992.
McGuire
MT, Marks I, Nesse RM, Troisi
A: Evolutionary biology: A basic science for psychiatry. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
86:89-96, 1992.
Nesse
RM, Klaas, R: Risk perception by patients with
anxiety disorder. Journal of Nervous and
Mental Disease, 182:465-470, 1994.
Nesse
RM: An evolutionary perspective on substance abuse. Ethology and Sociobiology 15:339-348, 1994.
Marks
IM, Nesse RM: Fear and fitness: An evolutionary analysis of anxiety disorders. Ethology and Sociobiology 15:247-261,
1994.
(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.
Nesse
RM, Williams GC: Why We Get Sick: The New
Science of Darwinian Medicine, Times Books, New York, 1995. Also published
by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London as Evolution and Healing: The
New Science of Darwinian Medicine. Translations completed
or underway to German, Italian, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Mandarin,
Spanish. Das bild wissenschaft
“Book of the Year-1997�
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.
Abelson
JL, Weg JG, Nesse RN, Curtis, GC: Neuroendocrine
responses to laboratory panic: Cognitive intervention in the doxapram model. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 21(4):375-90, 1996.
Nesse
RM, Berridge K Psychoactive drug use in evolutionary perspective. Science, 277: 63-65, 1997.
Nesse RM and GC Williams. Evolutionary biology in the
medical curriculum: What every physician should know. Bioscience 47: 664-666, 1997.
Young EA, Abelson JL, Curtis GC, Nesse RM Childhood
adversity and vulnerability to mood and anxiety disorders. Depression 5: 66-72, 1997.
Albucher RC,
Abelson JL, and RM Nesse. Defense mechanism changes in successfully
treated patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. American
Journal of Psychiatry, 1998. 155(4):
p. 558-9, 1998.
Nesse
RM: What Darwinian medicine offers psychiatry. Evolutionary Medicine, W. R. Trevathan,
J. J. McKenna and E. O. Smith. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999.
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 Emotional Disorders in Evolutionary Perspective. British Journal of Medical Psychology 71:397-415,
1998.
Nesse RM, & Williams, GC Evolution and the Origins of Disease.
Scientific American, 29 (5): 86-93, 1998.
Nesse
RM Research designs that address evolutionary questions about medical
disorders. pp. 16-26 in Evolutionary Medicine, S.
Stearns. New York, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Nesse
RM Testing evolutionary hypotheses about mental disorders. pp.
260-266 In Evolutionary Medicine edited by S. Stearns. New York,
Oxford University Press, 1999.
Himle JA, Abelson JL, Haghightgou
H, Hill EM, Nesse RM and Curtis, GC. Effect of Alcohol on
Social Phobic Anxiety. American Journal of Psychiatry 156:
1237-1243, 1999.
Nesse
RM Proximate and evolutionary studies of stress and depression: Synergy at the
Interface Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews,23 (7): 895-903, 1999.
Nesse
RM, Young, E The evolutionary origins and functions of the
stress response, The Encyclopedia of Stress, George Fink
(Ed.), Academic Press, NY, 79-84, 2000.
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 How selfish genes shape moral passions. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7 (1/2): 227-231, 2000.
Nesse
RM Strategic subjective commitment. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7 (1/2): 326-330-231, 2000.
Nesse
RM Is depression an adaptation? Archives of General Psychiatry, 57: 14-20, 2000.
Letters
in response and reply
Nesse RM Printing-The greatest invention. In The Greatest
Inventions of the past 2000 Years edited by J. Brockman, Simon &
Schuster, NY, 2000.
Nesse,
RM Is grief really maladaptive? (Review of The Nature of Grief, by John Archer) Evolution
and Human Behavior 29: 59-61, 2000.
Nesse,
RM On the difficulty of defining disease: A Darwinian perspective. Medicine,
Health Care and Philosophy, 4:37-46, 2001.
Nesse,
RM: Natural selection, mental modules and intelligence. Novartis Foundation
Symposium 233, The Nature of Intelligence,
Wiley, London, 2000.
Nesse, RM (ed.): Evolution
and the Capacity for Commitment, Russell Sage Press, New York, 2001.
[Book]
Nesse,
RM: The evolution of subjective commitment. In Evolution and the Capacity
for Commitment, Russell Sage Press, edited by RM Nesse, 2001.
Nesse,
RM: Commitment in the clinic (draft-see book for final), In Evolution and
the Capacity for Commitment, Russell Sage Press, edited by RM Nesse, 2001.
Nesse,
RM: The Future of commitment (draft-see book for final), In Evolution and
the Capacity for Commitment, Russell Sage Press, edited by RM Nesse, 2001.
Nesse,
RM: Motivation and Melancholy: A Darwinian perspective. Nebraska
Symposium on Motivation 2001.
Keller,
MC, Nesse, RM, Hofferth, S: The
Trivers–Willard hypothesis of parental investment No
effect in the contemporary United States Evolution and Human Behavior 22:
343–360, 2001.
Nesse,
RM: The smoke detector principle: Natural selection and the regulation of
defenses. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 935: 75-85, 2001.
Carr
D, House, JS, Kessler RC, Nesse RM, Sonnega J, Wortman C: Marital quality and
psychological adjustment to widowhood among older adults: A longitudinal
analysis. Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 55B(4):
S97-S207, 2000
Nesse, RM: Living with Luxury Fever. Review of Luxury Fever by Robert Frank, Free Press, New York, 1999. Evolution and Human Behavior, 2001.
Nesse,
RM: How is Darwinian medicine useful? Western Medical Journal, 174:
358-359, 2001.
Abelson
JL, Weg JG, Nesse RM, Curtis GC. Persistent respiratory irregularity in
patients with panic disorder. Biol Psychiatry.Apr 1;49(7):588-95, 2001.
Nesse,
RM: Medicine's missing basic science. The New Physician, Dec. 2001: 8-10.
Nesse,
RM: Evolutionary Biology: A basic science for psychiatry. World Journal of
Psychiatry 1:7-10, 2002.
Bonanno GA, Wortman CB, Lehman D, Tweed RG, Haring M,
Sonnega J, Carr D, Nesse, RM. Resilience to Loss and Chronic Grief: A
Prospective Study from Pre-loss to Eighteen Months Post-Loss. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 83 (5): 1150-1164, 2002.
Nesse RM. Evolution and Addiction. Addiction 97
(4):470-1, 2002.
Eaton
SB, Strassmann BI, Nesse RM, Neel JV, Ewald PW, Williams GC, et al.
Evolutionary health promotion. Preventive Medicine.Feb;34(2):109-18,
2002.
Utz, R. L., Carr, D., Nesse, R., & Wortman, C. The
effect of widowhood on older adults' social participation: An evaluation of
activity, disengagement, and continuity theories. The Gerontologist, 42:
522-533 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.
Nesse
RM, Schiffman JD: Evolutionary Biology in the Medical
School Curriculum. BioScience 53 (6): 585-587, 2003.
Brown, S. L., Nesse, R., Vinokur, A. D.,
& Smith, D. M. (2003). Providing Support may be More Beneficial than
Receiving It: Results from a Prospective Study of Mortality.
Psychological
Science, 14, 320-327, 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.
Sen S, Villafuerte S, Nesse R,
Stoltenberg SF, Hopcian J, Gleiberman
L, Weder A, Burmeister M: Serotonin transporter and GABAA alpha 6 receptor
variants are associated with neuroticism. Biol
Psychiatry 55(3):244-9, 2004.
Kruger, D.J., & Nesse, R.M: Sexual
selection and the Male:Female
Mortality Ratio. Evolutionary Psychology,
2: 66-85, 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.
Nesse
RM: Natural selection and the elusiveness of happiness. Philos
Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci; 359(1449):1333-47, 2004
Bonanno
GA, Wortman CB, Nesse RM:
Prospective patterns of resilience and maladjustment during widowhood. Prospective Patterns of Resilience and Maladjustment during
Widowhood. Psychology and Aging, 19 (2): 260-271, 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: Natural selection and the regulation of defensive responses. Evolution and Human Behavior, 26(1) 88-105, 2005.
Nesse,
RM: Maladaptation and natural selection. Quarterly Review of Biology 80(1):62-70,
2005.
Nesse,
RM: Cliff-edged fitness functions and the persistence of schizophrenia
(commentary). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2004.
Keller,
M. C., Nesse, R. M. Subtypes of low mood provide evidence of its adaptive
significance. Journal of Affective Disorders, 86
(1): 27-35, 2005.
Nesse,
RM: Twelve Crucial Points about Emotions, Evolution and Mental Disorders. Psychology Review 11(4) 12-14, 2005.
Sen
S, RM Nesse, L Sheng, SF Stoltenberg, L Gleiberman, M Burmeister and AB Weder..
Association between a Dopamine
4 Receptor Polymorphism (DRD4) and Blood Pressure: Evidence for a Gene-Age
Interaction, American Journal of Hypertension
18: 1206-1210, 2005.
Nesse,
RM: Evolutionary Psychology and Mental Health. Pages 903-937 in Handbook of Evolutionary
Psychology, Edited by David Buss, John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken
, NJ, 2005.
Nesse,
RM: Evolutionary explanations for mood and mood disorders. The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Mood Disorders,
edited by Daniel J. Stein , David J. Kupfer, and Alan F. Schatzberg,
American Psychiatric Publishing, Washington DC, pp. 159-175, 2006.
Nesse RM,
Weder, A: What Evolutionary Medicine Offers to Endothelium
Researchers. For, The Endothelium: A Comprehensive Reference, William Aird,
Editor, Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Keller,
MC, Nesse, RM: The Evolutionary Significance of Low Mood Symptoms. , Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 91(2):316-30, 2006. .
Carr D,
Nesse RM, Wortman CB: Late Life Widowhood
in the United States, Springer, New York, NY, 2005. [Book—Link to Amazon]
Nesse,
RM: Understanding late life widowhood: New directions in research, theory and
practice. In Carr D, Nesse R, Wortman CB: Late
Life Widowhood in the United States, Springer, 2005, pp. 3-18.
Nesse,
RM: An evolutionary perspective on bereavement. In Carr D, Nesse R, Wortman CB:
Late Life Widowhood in the United States,
Springer, 2005, pp. 195-226.
Nesse RM, Bhatnagar S,
Young, E: The evolutionary origins and functions of the stress response, The Encyclopedia of Stress, Second Edition,
Academic Press, NY, 2007.
Nesse
RM: Why so many people with selfish genes are pretty nice--Except for
their hatred of The Selfish Gene. In
Alan Grafen and Matt Ridley, The Selfish
Gene at 30, Oxford University Press, London, 2008
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.
Nesse
RM: Darwinian medicine and Mental Disorders. Elsevier International Congress Series, 1296:83-94, 2006.
Oyserman D, Uskul A, Yoder N, Nesse
R, Williams D: Unfair treatment and self-regulatory focus. Journal of Experimental and Social Psychology, 2007.
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
Nesse
RM, Jackson ED: Evolution: Psychiatric nosology's missing biological
foundation. Clinical Neuropsychiatry
3(2):121-131, 2006.
Nesse
RM, Bhatnagar S, Young, E: The
evolutionary origins and functions of the stress response, The Encyclopedia of
Stress, Second Edition, Edited by George Fink, Academic Press: San Diego,
2007, 965-970.
Nesse
RM, Weder A: Darwinian medicine: What evolutionary
medicine offers to endothelium researchers. In Endothelial Biomedicine, Edited by
William Aird, Cambridge University Press, 122-129, 2007.
Nesse RM: The importance of evolution for medicine.
Chapter 23 in Evolutionary Medicine,
Edited by Trevathan W, Smith EO & McKenna, JJ,
Oxford University Press, 416-232, 2007.
Stearns SS, Nesse RM, Haig D: Introducing
evolutionary thinking for medicine, Chapter 1 in Evolutionary Biology in Health and Disease, Edited by Stephen
Stearns, Oxford University Press, 3-15, 2007.
Kruger, DJ, Nesse, RM: An evolutionary framework for
understanding sex differences in Croatian mortality rates. Psychological Topics, 15 (2): 351-364, 2006.
Nesse
RM: Evolution is the scientific foundation for diagnosis: Psychiatry should use
it. World Psychiatry 6 (3): 160-161,
2007.
Kruger DJ, Nesse RM: Economic transition, male
competition, and sex differences in mortality rates. Evolutionary Psychology 5(2): 411-427, 2007.
Nesse
RM: Runaway Social Selection for Displays of Partner Value and Altruism, Biological Theory 2 (2): 143-155, 2007.
Nesse RM, Stearns SC: The Great Opportunity: Evolutionary Applications in
Medicine. Evolutionary Applications, 1 (1): 28- , 2008
Nesse, R. M.: What evolutionary biology offers
public health. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 86(2), 83,
2008.
Nesse, R. M.: Evolution in medical education:
The most basic science is missing. Lancet,
372, 21-27, 2008.
Nesse RM, Ellsworth PC. Evolution, emotions, and
emotional disorders. American
Psychologist, 64(2):129-39, 2009.
Pasca SP, Nesse RM. Vomiting is not an adaption
for glaucoma (and Darwinian medicine is difficult). Medical Hypotheses. 71(3):472-3, 2008.
Complete list of articles: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nesse/Articles/
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. Boston Globe, June 18, 1995
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.
Nesse
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Is
the market on Prozac? Published on the Edge.org website as a contribution to
The World Question Center: What is today's most important unreported
story?
Recorded lecture, available on the web
See other lectures at
http://EvolutionAndMedicine.org and at
http://HSTalks.com/evomed
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, Dartmouth College.
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.