Evolution is the scientific foundation for diagnosis: Psychiatry should use it

World Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 160-161

  Nesse, Randolph M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMOTION; EVOLUTION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL DISEASE; NOTE; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHOANALYSIS;

EID: 35748953771     PISSN: 17238617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

References (4)

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4. Nesse RM, Jackson ED. Evolution: psychiatric nosology's missing biological foundation. Clin Neuropsychiatry 2006;3:121-31.