Cannabidiol: a potential new alternative for the treatment of anxiety, depression, and psychotic disorders

MS García-Gutiérrez, F Navarrete, A Gasparyan… - Biomolecules, 2020‏ - mdpi.com
The potential therapeutic use of some Cannabis sativa plant compounds has been attracting
great interest, especially for managing neuropsychiatric disorders due to the relative lack of …

[HTML][HTML] Schizophrenia: The new etiological synthesis

MJ Rantala, S Luoto, JI Borráz-León, I Krams - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Schizophrenia has been an evolutionary paradox: it has high heritability, but it is associated
with decreased reproductive success. The causal genetic variants underlying schizophrenia …

DSM-5 criteria and depression severity: implications for clinical practice

JC Tolentino, SL Schmidt - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Background: Depression diagnosis requires five or more symptoms (Diagnostic and
Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-DSM-5). One of them must be either Depressed mood …

Evolutionary psychiatry: foundations, progress and challenges

RM Nesse - World Psychiatry, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Evolutionary biology provides a crucial foundation for medicine and behavioral science that
has been missing from psychiatry. Its absence helps to explain slow progress; its advent …

[HTML][HTML] Altered peripheral blood compounds in drug-naïve first-episode patients with either schizophrenia or major depressive disorder: a meta-analysis

N Çakici, AL Sutterland, BWJH Penninx… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Importance Schizophrenia and major depressive disorder (MDD) are associated with
increased risks of immunologic disease and metabolic syndrome. It is unclear to what extent …

Bipolar disorder: An evolutionary psychoneuroimmunological approach

MJ Rantala, S Luoto, JI Borráz-León, I Krams - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Bipolar disorder is a mental health disorder characterized by extreme shifts in mood, high
suicide rate, sleep problems, and dysfunction of psychological traits like self-esteem (feeling …

The mediating role of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in the relationship between childhood adversities and depressive symptoms in two samples

HW Fung, WT Chien, HWH Ling, CA Ross… - Child Abuse & …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Background Childhood adversities have been increasingly recognized as a significant risk
factor for depression. However, the underlying mediating mechanism between childhood …

Risk factors for adult depression: adverse childhood experiences and personality functioning

P Dagnino, MJ Ugarte, F Morales, S González… - Frontiers in …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Background: Depressive disorder is one of the main health problems worldwide. Many risk
factors have been associated with this pathology. However, while the association between …

Proximate and ultimate perspectives on romantic love

A Bode, G Kushnick - Frontiers in psychology, 2021‏ - frontiersin.org
Romantic love is a phenomenon of immense interest to the general public as well as to
scholars in several disciplines. It is known to be present in almost all human societies and …

A life history approach to the female sexual orientation spectrum: Evolution, development, causal mechanisms, and health

S Luoto, I Krams, MJ Rantala - Archives of Sexual Behavior, 2019‏ - Springer
Women's capacity for sexual fluidity is at least as interesting a phenomenon from the point of
view of evolutionary biology and behavioral endocrinology as exclusively homosexual …