Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine The Origins of Psychopathology

by Brune, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780198717942
• ISBN10: 0198717946
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2015-12-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Martin Brune, Professor of Psychiatry & Head of the Division of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Psychiatric Preventive Medicine, LWL University Hospital Bochum, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany

Martin Brune was born in Dortmund, Germany, in 1962. He graduated in medicine at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Munster in 1988. He completed his neurology training in 1993, and his psychiatry training in 1995. His subsequent training included a Visiting Research Scientist fellowship at the Centre for the Mind, a joint venture of the Australian National University and University of Sydney. He is currently Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the Division of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Psychiatric Preventive Medicine at the LWL University-Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

Table of Contents

Part I: Theoretical background
1. Principles of evolutionary theory, evolutionary psychology and genetics
2. The human brain: Anatomy, evolution and function
3. Human life history
4. Causes of psychopathology
5. Psychiatric assessment
Part II: Psychiatric disorders
6. Autism
7. Attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder
8. Schizophrenia spectrum disorders
9. Bipolar disorder
10. Depressive disorder
11. Anxiety disorders
12. Obsessive compulsive disorder
13. Trauma- and stressor-related disorders
14. Somatic symptom and related disorders
15. Feeding and eating disorders
16. Sexual dysfunctions
17. Substance related and addictive disorders
18. Neurocognitive disorders
19. Personality disorders
Part III: Special topics
20. Suicide and self-injurious behaviour
21. Forensic aspects of psychiatric disorders
22. Psychotherapy
23. Psychotropic medication
24. Epilogue
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