What IS Depression? | Daniel Nettle | Evolving Psychiatry Podcast #52

What different explanatory frameworks can make sense of depression? And what are their respective impacts? Daniel Nettle is a behavioural scientist whose work bridges psychology, evolution, and public health. He a researcher in the Evolution and Social Cognition team at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris as well as a Professor at Northumbria University. Much of his most recent research has examined how poverty, inequality, and social environments shape behaviour and mental health. He’s the author several books, including Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile and Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are, as well as a wide range of academic articles and research relating to evolutionary psychiatry, including on schizophrenia, early life stressors, depression and interpretation of different explanatory frameworks of mental disorder. This podcast is financially supported by the Human Ecology Group of the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine at the University of Zurich.