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'''Evolutionary developmental psychopathology''' is an approach to the understanding of [[psychiatric disorders]] based on the following:
'''Evolutionary developmental psychopathology''' is an approach to the understanding of [[psychiatric disorders]]. Modern evolutionary psychopathology examines the current adaptiveness of psychiatric disorders by examine their impact on fertility across the lifespan <ref>Jacobson, N.C. (2016). Current Evolutionary Adaptiveness of Psychiatric Disorders: Fertility Rates, Parent-Child Relationship Quality, and Psychiatric Disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology </ref>

Evolutionary developmental Psychology can be based on the following.:
* human [[adaptation]]s were forged to function in past environments rather than the current environment;
* human [[adaptation]]s were forged to function in past environments rather than the current environment;
* humans are constantly evolving, and thus one can study the adaptiveness of psychopathology in the current environment to establish their prevalence in the near future;<ref>Jacobson, N.C. (2016). Current Evolutionary Adaptiveness of Psychiatric Disorders: Fertility Rates, Parent-Child Relationship Quality, and Psychiatric Disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology </ref>
* investigations of brain-damaged patients should be included in the modeling of disorders to facilitate the mapping of psychological functions on to brain systems;
* investigations of behavioural abnormalities should be combined with those on information-processing abnormalities in a scheme that acknowledges both [[cognition]] and affect as components of information processing;
* investigation of specific signs and [[symptoms]], rather than [[syndromes]], as symptoms such as [[delusions]] and [[hallucinations]], for example, are observed in patients who currently fall into a number of diagnostic categories, including [[schizophrenia]] and affective [[psychosis]];
* the expectation that complex psychological processes will be broken down into simpler tasks that can be performed by mindless agents;
* research should be particularly attentive to any data showing [[sexual dimorphism]] and changes in psychological functioning and neural architecture across the lifespan, and therefore to comparisons between [[adults]], [[adolescents]], and [[children]].
* research should be particularly attentive to any data showing [[sexual dimorphism]] and changes in psychological functioning and neural architecture across the lifespan, and therefore to comparisons between [[adults]], [[adolescents]], and [[children]].
* all study of evolutionary psychopathology requires a trait to be at least partially heritable. Thus examining the heritabilitiy of a trait is the first step in research. <ref>Jacobson, N.C. (2016). Current Evolutionary Adaptiveness of Psychiatric Disorders: Fertility Rates, Parent-Child Relationship Quality, and Psychiatric Disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology </ref>


==See also==
==See also==

Revision as of 11:28, 9 July 2016

Evolutionary developmental psychopathology is an approach to the understanding of psychiatric disorders. Modern evolutionary psychopathology examines the current adaptiveness of psychiatric disorders by examine their impact on fertility across the lifespan [1]

Evolutionary developmental Psychology can be based on the following.:

  • human adaptations were forged to function in past environments rather than the current environment;
  • humans are constantly evolving, and thus one can study the adaptiveness of psychopathology in the current environment to establish their prevalence in the near future;[2]
  • research should be particularly attentive to any data showing sexual dimorphism and changes in psychological functioning and neural architecture across the lifespan, and therefore to comparisons between adults, adolescents, and children.
  • all study of evolutionary psychopathology requires a trait to be at least partially heritable. Thus examining the heritabilitiy of a trait is the first step in research. [3]

See also

  1. ^ Jacobson, N.C. (2016). Current Evolutionary Adaptiveness of Psychiatric Disorders: Fertility Rates, Parent-Child Relationship Quality, and Psychiatric Disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  2. ^ Jacobson, N.C. (2016). Current Evolutionary Adaptiveness of Psychiatric Disorders: Fertility Rates, Parent-Child Relationship Quality, and Psychiatric Disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  3. ^ Jacobson, N.C. (2016). Current Evolutionary Adaptiveness of Psychiatric Disorders: Fertility Rates, Parent-Child Relationship Quality, and Psychiatric Disorders. Journal of Abnormal Psychology
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