Human brain evolution and the "Neuroevolutionary Time-depth Principle:" Implications for the Reclassification of fear-circuitry-related traits in DSM-V and for studying resilience to warzone-related posttraumatic stress disorder.

• Main Author: Bracha, Dr. H. Stefan
• Format: Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2006
• Subjects: Evolutionary Psychology; Philosophy of Science; Koro; Suo; Avian flu
• Online Access: http://cogprints.org/5013/; http://cogprints.org/5013/1/2006_P.N.P._Neuro-evolution_of_fear_circuit_disorders.pdf

The DSM-III, DSM-IV, DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10 have judiciously minimized discussion of etiologies to distance clinical psychiatry from Freudian psychoanalysis. With this goal mostly achieved, discussion of etiological factors should be reintroduced into the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Di...