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Antidepressants are analgesics for mental pain
Much of the intense controversy that swirls around antidepressants arises from not understanding how they help.
Jul 9
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Randolph Nesse
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Overprescribing and the "Do Something Imperative"
The intense situation where decisions are made
Jun 6
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Randolph Nesse
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Runaway positive feedback and disease
Vicious cycles are everywhere once you recognize them
Jan 25
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Randolph Nesse
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The genotype-to-phenotype path is a maze in a tangled bank
Severely limiting the power of genetic predictions
Jan 6
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Randolph Nesse
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Psychiatry’s Holy Grail does not exist. What now?
We need a medical view of disorders as failure modes in functional systems
Dec 14, 2025
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Randolph Nesse
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Viewing Diseases As Adaptations
An error that is as natural as it is serious
Oct 14, 2025
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Randolph Nesse
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Mood disorders are control system failure modes
Not products of specific brain abnormalities
Sep 15, 2025
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Randolph Nesse
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Epistasis Illustrated
to make the concept and formulas make sense
Sep 7, 2025
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Randolph Nesse
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