Titlebook: Religious Beliefs, Evolutionary Psychiatry, and Mental Health in America; Evolutionary Threat Kevin J. Flannelly Book 2017 Springer Intern

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Darwin’s , and , of the continuity of mental abilities in humans and other animals to the experience and expression of emotions. The chapter describes the parallels Darwin saw between the human and animal expression of anger, fear, and other emotions.

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Brain Evolution and Emotionsnd joy. As the chapter explains, emotions, which probably did not exist until the evolution of the limbic system, provided mammals with superior flexibility to respond to life challenges and other circumstances. The chapter further explains that the evolution of the neocortex added even greater flex

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Fear in the Animal and Human Brainprinciple,” tends to over-react to ambiguous stimuli as if they are threats, and therefore, produces fear even when something may not actually pose a threat of harm. This over-reaction can be countered by the prefrontal cortex, which makes it own threat assessments and can suppress the fear generate

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Other Psychiatric Disorders as Evolutionary Adaptationssymptoms, and the fundamental problem that the mechanisms trigger fear and anxiety when no real threat of harm exists. Finally, the chapter highlights some of the shortcomings of evolutionary psychology, which is interested in only the last 1.8 million years of human evolution.

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Beliefs and Psychiatric Symptomse certain religious beliefs and how folk beliefs about biology probably contributed to both the historical rejection and acceptance of the concept of organic evolution. The following section presents clinical and research evidence that negative beliefs about the world, including negative beliefs abo

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Evolutionary Threat Assessment Systems Theoryderstanding the operation of ETAS. These include the role of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) in deductive reasoning and threat assessment, the influence of beliefs on the vmPFC’s decision-making, the degree to which a sense of safety affects threat assessments, and the vmPFC’s sensitivity

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Belief in God and Life-After-Death Among American Adultsl. The chapter also presents results showing that most Americans believe in life-after-death, but these beliefs take various forms. The most common American beliefs about the afterlife are that it entails peace and tranquility, union with God, and reunion with loved ones.

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Book 2017 brain mechanisms that evolved to protect us from harm; the prevalence rate of psychiatric symptoms in the U.S. general population; how religious and other beliefs influence the brain mechanisms that underlie psychiatric symptoms; and the brain regions that are involved in different psychiatric diso