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Psychology D-index 76 Citations 26,438 185 World Ranking 1187 National Ranking 745

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Awards & Achievements

2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Internal medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Major depressive disorder

His primary areas of investigation include Anxiety, Depression, Mental health, Psychiatry and Natural selection. Randolph M. Nesse interconnects Developmental psychology, Internal medicine and Endocrinology in the investigation of issues within Anxiety. His study connects Clinical psychology and Depression.

His work carried out in the field of Mental health brings together such families of science as Context, Grief and Gerontology. His study in Psychiatry focuses on Mood in particular. His Natural selection study incorporates themes from Cognitive psychology, Social psychology and Evolutionary medicine.

His most cited work include:

  • Prevalence and distribution of major depressive disorder in African Americans, Caribbean blacks, and non-Hispanic whites: results from the National Survey of American Life. (869 citations)
  • Providing Social Support May Be More Beneficial Than Receiving It Results From a Prospective Study of Mortality (824 citations)
  • Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine (647 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

Randolph M. Nesse mainly investigates Anxiety, Psychiatry, Evolutionary medicine, Clinical psychology and Internal medicine. His research links Mood with Anxiety. He has included themes like Natural selection, Disease and Public health in his Evolutionary medicine study.

His work in Clinical psychology addresses subjects such as Depression, which are connected to disciplines such as Mental health and Grief. The concepts of his Mental health study are interwoven with issues in Context and Gerontology. His Internal medicine study deals with Endocrinology intersecting with Cholecystokinin and Phobias.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Anxiety (26.36%)
  • Psychiatry (19.55%)
  • Evolutionary medicine (17.73%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2011-2021)?

  • Evolutionary medicine (17.73%)
  • Psychiatry (19.55%)
  • Clinical psychology (15.00%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Evolutionary medicine, Psychiatry, Clinical psychology, Depression and Anxiety. His research integrates issues of Natural selection and Public health in his study of Evolutionary medicine. His Natural selection study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Social psychology, Evolutionary psychology and Reductionism.

The study incorporates disciplines such as Schizophrenia and Depressive symptoms in addition to Clinical psychology. His study in Mood extends to Depression with its themes. Randolph M. Nesse combines subjects such as Threshold of pain, Chronic pain, Separation and Genetic data with his study of Anxiety.

Between 2011 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Depression is not a consistent syndrome: An investigation of unique symptom patterns in the STAR*D study (292 citations)
  • Depression sum-scores don’t add up: why analyzing specific depression symptoms is essential (263 citations)
  • What are 'good' depression symptoms? Comparing the centrality of DSM and non-DSM symptoms of depression in a network analysis (228 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Internal medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Major depressive disorder

Randolph M. Nesse mainly focuses on Psychiatry, Evolutionary medicine, Depression, Major depressive disorder and Clinical psychology. His Evolutionary medicine study combines topics in areas such as Psychological intervention, Natural selection and Public health. His work carried out in the field of Psychological intervention brings together such families of science as Cognitive psychology, Gerontology, Applied psychology, Abnormality and Mental health.

His study looks at the relationship between Major depressive disorder and topics such as Severity of illness, which overlap with Treatment outcome, Symptom profiles and Treatment efficacy. His study in Clinical psychology is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Young adult, Chronic stress, Depressive symptoms, Depression levels and Etiology. His Mood research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Insomnia, Psychosocial, Explained variation, Anxiety and Clinical significance.

This overview was generated by a machine learning system which analysed the scientist’s body of work. If you have any feedback, you can contact us here.

Best Publications

Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine

Randolph M. Nesse;George Christopher Williams.
(1994)

1747 Citations

Providing Social Support May Be More Beneficial Than Receiving It Results From a Prospective Study of Mortality

Stephanie L. Brown;Randolph M. Nesse;Amiram D. Vinokur;Dylan M. Smith.
Psychological Science (2003)

1649 Citations

Resilience to Loss and Chronic Grief: A Prospective Study From Preloss to 18-Months Postloss

George A. Bonanno;Camille B. Wortman;Darrin R. Lehman;Roger G. Tweed.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (2002)

1442 Citations

Prevalence and distribution of major depressive disorder in African Americans, Caribbean blacks, and non-Hispanic whites: results from the National Survey of American Life.

David R. Williams;Hector M. González;Harold Neighbors;Randolph Nesse.
Archives of General Psychiatry (2007)

1370 Citations

Evolutionary explanations of emotions.

Randolph M. Nesse.
Human Nature (1990)

1189 Citations

Is depression an adaptation

Randolph M. Nesse.
Archives of General Psychiatry (2000)

1007 Citations

The Dawn of Darwinian Medicine

George C. Williams;Randolph M. Nesse.
The Quarterly Review of Biology (1991)

909 Citations

The National Survey of American Life: A study of racial, ethnic and cultural influences on mental disorders and mental health

James S. Jackson;Myriam Torres;Cleopatra H. Caldwell;Harold W. Neighbors.
International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research (2004)

864 Citations

Prospective patterns of resilience and maladjustment during widowhood

George A. Bonanno;Camille B. Wortman;Randolph M. Nesse.
Psychology and Aging (2004)

803 Citations

Fear and fitness: An evolutionary analysis of anxiety disorders

Isaac f.M. Marks;Randolph M. Nesse.
Ethology and Sociobiology (1994)

790 Citations

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