RandolphMNesseMD

PubMed

• 800 citations
  Prevalence and distribution of major depressive disorder in African Americans, Caribbean blacks, and non-Hispanic whites: results from the National Survey of American ...
  David R. Williams, Hector M. González, Harold W. Neighbors, Randolph M. Nesse, Jamie M. Abelson
  Archives of General Psychiatry. 2007-03-01
• 495 citations
  Depression is not a consistent syndrome: An investigation of unique symptom patterns in the STAR*D study
  Eiko I. Fried, Randolph M. Nesse
  Journal of Affective Disorders. 2015-02-01
• 496 citations
  Depression sum-scores don’t add up: why analyzing specific depression symptoms is essential
  Eiko I. Fried, Randolph M. Nesse
  BMC Medicine. 2015-04-06

Journal Articles

• The differential influence of life stress on individual symptoms of depression in a longitudinal study of medical residents  
  Fried, E. I., Nesse, R. M., Guille, C., & Sen, S., Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica, 1/1/2015
• Evolutionary Biology in Medical Education: Survey of North American Medical Schools  
  Hideka, BH, Asghar A, Nesse RM, Bennett KJ, Beyrouty MW Skursky NK, Schwartz MD, BMC Medical Education, 1/1/2015
• Depression is not a consistent syndrome: An investigation of unique symptom patterns in the STAR* D study  
  Fried EI & Nesse RM, Journal of Affective Disorders, 1/1/2015
• Comment: A General ''Theory of Emotion'' Is Neither Necessary nor Possible  
  Nesse, R. M., Emotion Review, 1/1/2014
• Do Special Occasions Trigger Psychological Distress among Older Bereaved Spouses? An Empirical Assessment of Clinical Wisdom  
  Carr D, Sonnega J, Nesse RM, House JS, Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 1/1/2014
• The Impact of Individual Depressive Symptoms on Impairment of Psychosocial Functioning  
  Fried, E. I., & Nesse, R. M., PLoS ONE, 1/1/2014
• Depression is more than the sum score of its parts: individual DSM symptoms have different risk factors  
  Fried, E. I., Nesse, R. M., Zivin, K., Guille, C., & Sen, S, Psychological Medicine, 1/1/2014
• Evolutionary foundations for cancer biology  
  Aktipis A, Nesse R, Evolutionary Applications, 1/1/2013
• The evolution of evolutionary molecular medicine  
  Ganten D, Nesse R, Journal of Molecular Medicine, 1/1/2012
• Evolutionary molecular medicine  
  Nesse R, Ganten D, Gregory T, Omenn G, Journal of Molecular Medicine, 1/1/2012
• Evolutionary Approaches to Sexually Transmitted Infections  
  Nesse RM, Foxman, B, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1/1/2011
• Why has natural selection left us so vulnerable to anxiety and mood disorders?  
  Nesse RM, Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 1/1/2011
• Ten questions for evolutionary studies of disease vulnerability  
  Nesse RM, Evolutionary Applications, 1/1/2011
• Threat detection, precautionary responses and anxiety disorders  
  Stein, D.J., Nesse, R.M., Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 1/1/2010
• Making evolutionary biology a basic science for medicine  
  Nesse RM, Bergstrom CT, Ellison PT, Flier JS, Gluckman P, Govindaraju DR, Niethammer D, Omenn GS, Perlman RL, Schwartz MD, Thomas MG, Stearns SC, Valle D, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 1/1/2010
• Evolutionary perspectives on health and medicine  
  Stearns SC, Nesse RM, Govindaraju DR, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 1/1/2010
• Evolution, emotions, and emotional disorders  
  Nesse RM, Ellsworth PC, American Psychologist, 1/1/2009
• Evolution at 150: time for truly biological psychiatry  
  Nesse RM, British Journal of Psychiatry, 1/1/2009
• Digesting Evolution (Book Review)  
  Nesse RM, Nature, 1/1/2009
• The great opportunity: Evolutionary applications to medicine and public health  
  Nesse RM, Stearns SC, Evolutionary Applications, 1/1/2008
• Evolution in medical education: The most basic science is missing  
  Nesse, R. M., Lancet, 1/1/2008
• Vomiting is not an adaption for glaucoma (and Darwinian medicine is difficult)  
  Pasca SP, Nesse RM, Medical Hypotheses, 1/1/2008
• Antidepressant Use in Black and White Populations in the United States  
  Gonzalez HM, Croghan T, West B, Williams D, Nesse R, Tarraf W, Taylor R, Hinton L, Neighbors H, Jackson J, Psychiatric Services, 1/1/2008
• Race, Ethnicity, and the Use of Services for Mental Disorders: Results from the National Survey of American Life  
  Neighbors HW, Caldwell C, Williams DR, Nesse RM, Taylow RJ, Bullard KM, Torres M, Jackson JS, Archives of General Psychiatry, 1/1/2007
• Prevalence and distribution of major depressive disorder among African Americans, Caribbean Blacks and non-Hispanic Whites: Results from the National Survey of America...  
  Williams SR, Gonzalez HM, Neighbors HW, Nesse RM, Abelson JM, Sweetman J, Jackson JS, Archives of General Psychiatry, 1/1/2007
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Books/Book Chapters

• Good Reasons for Bad Feelings 
  Randolph M NesseDutton (Penguin Random House), New York2019
• Evolution and Healing: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine. 
  Nesse RM, Williams GCWeidenfeld and Nicolson, London2012
• Pragmatic Evolution: Applications of Evolutionary Theory. 
  Chapter: Evolution: A basic science for medicine 
  Page 107 - 114Nesse RMEditors: Poiani A.Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom2012
• Maladapting Minds: Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Evolutionary Theory. 
  Chapter: Evolutionary foundations for psychiatric diagnosis: Making DSM-V valid 
  Page 167 - 191Nesse RM, Jackson EDEditors: De Block A, Adriaens P.Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom2011
• Oxford textbook of medicine 
  Chapter: Evolution: Medicine’s most basic science. 
  Nesse RM, & Dawkins REditors: D. A. Warrell, T. M. Cox, J. D. Firth & E. J. J. Benz.Oxford University Press, Oxford, United KingdomEdition 5th,2010
• Evolution, culture, and the human mind. 
  Chapter: Social selection and the origins of culture. 
  Page 137 - 150Nesse RMEditors: M. Schaller, S. J. Heine, A. in Norenzayan, T. Yamagishi & T. Kameda.Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Philadelphia, PA2010
• The Moral Brain: Essays on the Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Aspects of Morality. 
  Chapter: How can evolution and neuroscience help us understand moral capacities? 
  Page 201 - 210Nesse RMEditors: Verplaetse J, De Schrijver J, Vanneste S, Braeckman J.Springer, New York, NY2009
• Understanding depression: A translational approach. 
  Editors: Pariente CM, Nesse RM, Nutt D, Wolpert L.Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom2009
• Oxford companion to the affective sciences. 
  Chapter: Proximate and evolutionary explanations. 
  Nesse R MEditors: K. R. Scherer & D. Sander.Oxford University Press, London2009
• Oxford companion to the affective sciences. 
  Chapter: Evolutionary origins and functions of the emotions. 
  Nesse, RMEditors: K. R. Scherer & D. Sander.Oxford University Press, London2009
• The Moral Brain: Essays on the Evolutionary and Neuroscientific Aspects of Morality. 
  Chapter: Runaway social selection for displays of partner value and altruism. 
  Page 211 - 232Nesse RMEditors: Verplaetse J, De Schrijver J, Vanneste S, Braeckman J.Springer Verlag, New York, NY2009
• Understanding Altruism. 
  Chapter: Runaway social selection for displays of partner value and altruism. 
  Page 89 - 118Nesse RMEditors: Gopalan S.Icfaia University Press, Hyderbad, India2009
• Lettura darwiniana della medicina 
  Chapter: L'importanza dell'evoluzione per la medicina. 
  Page 9 - 35Nesse RML'Arco di Giano, Rome, Italy2009
• Understanding depression:A translational approach. 
  Chapter: Explaining depression: Neuroscience is not enough, evolution is essential. 
  Page 17 - 36Nesse R MEditors: Pariente CM, Nesse RM, Nutt DJ, Wolpert L.Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom2009
• Evolutionary Biology in Health and Disease 
  Chapter: Introducing evolutionary thinking for medicine, Chapter 1 
  Stearns SS, Nesse RM, Haig DEditors: Stephen Stearns.Oxford University Press2007
• Endothelial Biomedicine 
  Chapter: Darwinian medicine: What evolutionary medicine offers to endothelium researchers. 
  Page 122 - 128Nesse RM, Weder AEditors: William Aird.Cambridge University Press2007
• The Encyclopedia of Stress 
  Chapter: The evolutionary origins and functions of the stress response 
  Page 965 - 970Nesse RM, Bhatnagar S, Young, EEditors: George Fink.Academic Press, San Diego, CAEdition 2nd,2007
• Elsevier International Congress Series 
  Chapter: Darwinian medicine and Mental Disorders. 
  Page 83 - 94Nesse RM2006
• The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Mood Disorders 
  Chapter: Evolutionary explanations for mood and mood disorders. 
  Page 159 - 175Nesse RMEditors: Daniel J. Stein , David J. Kupfer, and Alan F. Schatzberg.American Psychiatric Publishing, Washington, DC2006
• Why so many people with selfish genes are pretty nice—Except for their hatred of The Selfish Gene. 
  Page 203 - 212Nesse RMEditors: Alan Grafen and Matt Ridley, Richard Dawkins.Oxford University Press, London2006
• The Science of Well-being. 
  Chapter: Natural selection and the elusiveness of happiness. 
  Page 3 - 34Nesse RMEditors: F. A. Huppert, B. B. Keverne, and N. N. Baylis.Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom2005
• Late Life Widowhood in the United States 
  Editors: Carr D, Nesse RM, Wortman CB.Springer, New York, NY2005
• Late Life Widowhood in the United States 
  Chapter: Understanding late life widowhood: New directions in research, theory and practice. 
  Page 3 - 18Nesse RMEditors: Carr D, Nesse R, Wortman CB.Springer2005
• Late Life Widowhood in the United States 
  Chapter: An evolutionary perspective on bereavement. 
  Page 195 - 226Nesse RMEditors: Carr D, Nesse R, Wortman CB.Springer2005
• The Evolutionary Psychology Handbook 
  Chapter: Evolutionary Psychology and Mental Health 
  Page 903 - 927Nesse RMEditors: David Buss.John Wiley and Sons2005
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Abstracts/Posters

• The Case for Revising the Medical School Curriculum to Include Topics in Evolution and “Evolutionary Thinking.”
  Omenn, G, Nesse RM, Schwartz, Institute of Medicine Planning Meeting on Evolution in the Medical School Curriculum, National Academy, Washington, DC, 1/12/2010

Lectures

• Evolution and Medicine: The Great Opportunity. 
  Durham, NC - 1/28/2014
• Pathogens Interacting with Humans. 
  CDC, Atlanta, GA - 1/11/2014
• Evolution and internal medicine. 
  San Diego, CA - 1/1/2014
• How Understanding the Utility of Negative Emotions Improves Treatment. 
  San Diego, CA - 1/1/2014
• What evolution offers to medicine. 
  Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ - 1/27/2013
• Ten things doctors should know about evolutionary applications in medicine. 
  Denver, CO - 1/25/2013
• The emotions: Not an English garden, but a wild tangled bank. 
  Washington, DC - 1/24/2013
• Social Selection: A Neglected Foundation for Social Psychology. 
  New Orleans, LA - 1/17/2013
• Why has natural selection left us vulnerable to cancer? 
  University of California, San Francisco - 1/15/2013
• Evolution and the prevalence of negative emotions (plenary). 
  London - 1/14/2013
• How evolutionary medicine can advance psychotherapy Evolution and Psychodynamics. 
  London - 1/13/2013
• Evolutionary Medicine and Molecular Medicine 
  Heidelberg, Germany - 1/12/2013
• Evolutionary foundations for medicine and public health. Keynote 
  Ann Arbor, MI - 1/7/2013
• Darwinian Medicine at 20: Not mature, but on the way. 
  Harvard Museum of Natural History - 1/29/2012
• Sex differences in mortality. 
  1/25/2012
• If natural selection is so great, why isn’t the brain better? 
  1/23/2012
• Toward a more genuinely medical model for psychiatric nosology. 
  Henry Ford Hospital - 1/19/2012
• Evolution and Medicine: Envisioning the Opportunities. 
  Stanford - 1/15/2012
• Evolution, Behavior and Public Health 
  1/1/2012
• Keynote Lecture: Evolutionary Medicine: Contributions to the Study of Disease and Immunity. 
  Florida State University - 1/26/2011
• How much emotion is optimal for us…and for our genes. 
  Tilburg University, The Netherlands - 1/23/2011
• Evolution and Medicine Workshop and Lecture 
  University of Florida - 1/22/2011
• Why Does Depression Exist At All? 
  University of Florida - 1/22/2011
• Evolutionary Medicine 
  Jagiellonian University, Warsaw - 1/22/2011
• Social selection and the origins of morality and social anxiety. 
  Buenos Aires, Argentina - 1/21/2011
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Other

• What evolutionary biology offers public health. 
  Nesse RM, Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  1/1/2008
• Twelve crucial points about emotions. 
  Nesse, RM, Psychology Review (magazine)
  1/1/2005
• Evolution and Medicine: How New Applications Advance Research and Practice 
  Randolph M. Nesse, Henry Stewart Talks Series
  http://hstalks.com