Evolutionary psychiatry: a new College special interest group

Evolutionary science remains an overlooked area in psychiatry and medicine. The newly established Royal College of Psychiatrists' Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group aims to reverse this trend by raising the profile of evolutionary thinking among College members and others further af...

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Autores principales: Abed, Riadh, St John-Smith, Paul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5046779/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27752339
http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.115.052407
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spelling pubmed-50467792016-10-17 Evolutionary psychiatry: a new College special interest group Abed, Riadh St John-Smith, Paul BJPsych Bull Editorial Evolutionary science remains an overlooked area in psychiatry and medicine. The newly established Royal College of Psychiatrists' Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group aims to reverse this trend by raising the profile of evolutionary thinking among College members and others further afield. Here we provide a brief outline of the importance of the evolutionary approach to both the theory and practice of psychiatry and for future research. Royal College of Psychiatrists 2016-10 /pmc/articles/PMC5046779/ /pubmed/27752339 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.bp.115.052407 Text en © 2016 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open-access article published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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