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Podcast: Happy Habit Podcast
Episode: # 362 - Is anxiety inherited ? - Prof Randolph Nesse
Description: Today I am talking with one of the pioneers of evolutionary medicine and evolutionary psychiatry, Professor Randolf Nesse.
We discuss what evolution has to do with modern day psychiatry and how knowledge of evolution's influences on someone's mental health informs Prof Nesse's ability to help his patients.
We learn whether our quest for happiness is merely a distraction.
Is mental illness a result of nature or nurture or indeed a little of
both?
Expect to learn that low mood isn't always bad.
We discover what the smoke detector principle is. We ask what the purpose of human emotion is ?
We...