Events

• Minutes of the EPSIG AGM 31 May 2019 (pdf)
• Minutes of the EPSIG AGM 18 May 2018 (pdf)
• Minutes of EPSIG AGM 13 January 2017 (pdf)
• EPSIG  Agenda AGM - 13 January 2017 (pdf)
• Minutes of EPSIG Meeting - 18 May 2016 (doc)
• Meeting Agenda for Wednesday 18 May 2016 (pdf)
• Minutes of the Inaugural Meeting of EPSIG - Tuesday 12 January 2016. (pdf)

Early Adversity and Mental Health Comparative and Evolution- EPSIG Half Day Workshop

01 May 2020- 1:00pm - 5:00pm at The Royal College of Psychiatrists

Please see programme (PDF) for further information and book now to secure your place.

Presentations from EPSIG AGM and Evolutionary Perspectives on Suicide Workshop, 31 May 2019, London

Please see the programme (PDF) for the day.

• Mohammed Abbas - An Introduction to Suicide : Facts, Challenges and a Model (PPT)
• C.A. Soper- Adaptation to the Suicide Niche (PDF)

Presentations from the Third EPSIG Symposium (PDF), 22 March 2019, London

• Dr Gerhard Medicus - Human ethology and the understanding of personality disorder (PDF)
• Dr Haley Peckham - Surviving at the cost of suffering: The mixed blessings of our evolved neuroplastic brains (PDF)
• Bernadette Wren - Can evolutionary thinking shed light on gender diversity: A view from the clinic (PDF)
• Professor Markus Rantala - An evolutionary model of depression (PDF)
• Professor Daniel Nettle- Depression: What (if anything) is it, and what are its evolutionary origins (PDF)
• Professor Marco Del Giudice - Form follows function: An evolutionary model of the structure of psychopathology (PDF)

Recordings of these lectures can be viewed on our YouTube channel

Presentations from the 2nd EPSIG Symposium, 12 January 2018

Live recordings from the symposium are now available on our YouTube channel or through the links below.

• Welcome Address from the EPSIG Chair
• How evolutionary thinking can help us to understand ADHD
• An Evolutionary Account of Brain Laterality
• Life History Theory: A Framework for the Understanding of Personality Disorder
• From caring to compassion: an evolutionary journey and social implication exploration
• Evolutionary Models of Mental Disorders (II) Eating Disorders
• What clinicians can learn from evolutionary psychiatry

Presentations from the 2nd EPSIG Half-day Scientific Meeting 18 May 2018

• Evolutionary aspects of ageing and Alzheimer’s (pdf) - Paul St John-Smith
• Mental illness in hunter-gatherers: Child care and mismatch (pdf) - Nikhil Chaudhary.

Download the full programme. (pdf)

Presentations from the EPSIG Half-day Scientific Meeting 19 May 2017

• Professor Carmine Pariante - Depression and Inflammation: A Life-Saving Response to Stress Gone Awry (pdf)
• Meeting Agenda 19th May. (pdf)

Presentations from EPSIG AGM January 2017

• Darwinian Theory and Psychiatry: a Historical Perspective (pdf) presented by Hannah Sheftel.

Presentations from the first EPSIG Symposium

• 7 videos from the first EPSIG Symposium
• Why should Psychiatry now consider Evolution (pdf)
• The Evolution of the Social Mind (pdf)
• The Outgroup Intolerance Hypothesis for Schizophrenia (pdf)
• Why We Get Sad: How Evolution Makes Sense of Emotional Disorders (pdf)
• Autism: An evolutionary perspective (pdf)
• The case for including evolutionary theory into the MRCPsych Curriculum. (pdf)