The evolutionary epidemiology of mania and depression
Subtitle: a theoretical and empirical interpretation of mood disorders
By: Daniel R. Wilson and Gerald A. Cory Jr. ; with a foreword by Farid Dalili.
Contributors: Cory, Gerald A.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780773452091
Subjects: Affective disorders -- Genetic aspects; Affective disorders -- Etiology; Mood Disorders -- epidemiology; Evolution; Models, Biological; Mood Disorders -- genetics; Social Behavior
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The evolution of human sociality; title: The normal limits of sociality; title: Normality, psychopathology, and beyond; title: Classical genetics of mania and depression; title: Population and quantitative genetics of mania and depression; title: Molecular genetics of mania and depression; title: Evolutionary epidemiology: the sickle cell anemia paradigm; title: Evolutionary epidemiology "excess:" prevalence of bipolar disorder; title: Toward an evolutionary anthropology of bipolar "disorder"; title: Game theory and bipolar disorder; title: The basic sociobiology of bipolar neuromentality; title: Toward an evolutionary epidemiology of the neurotransmission of social rank and alliance; title: The bipolar spectrum and neuropathologies of talent; title: Evolutionary epidemiology: a brief review of other neuropsychiatric syndromes and related issues.