The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Medicine
Edited by Martin Brune and Wulf Schiefenhovel
Author Information
Martin Brune, Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine Division of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany,Wulf Schiefenhovel, Professor of Medical Psychology and Ethnomedicine, Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Germany
Born in Dortmund, Germany, in 1962. Martin Brune graduated in medicine at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Munster in 1988. He completed his neurology training in 1993, and his psychiatry training in 1995. His subsequent training included a Visiting Research Scientist fellowship at the Centre for the Mind, a joint venture of the Australian National University and University of Sydney. He is currently Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the Division of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry and Psychiatric Preventive Medicine at the LWL University-Hospital, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
Martin Brune's research projects include social cognition in psychiatric disorders, the association of social cognition with social functioning and nonverbal behaviour, game-theoretical scenarios, the effect of oxytocin on social perception and cognition in psychiatric disorders and social interaction in therapeutic settings.
Born in 1943 in Siegen, Germany. Wulf Schiefenhovel graduated in medicine at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen in 1970. In 1965 beginning of ongoing fieldwork in ethnomedicine, anthropology and human ethology in Mainland and Island New Guinea. WS was president of the German Society for Anthropology, the International Society for Human Ethology and fellow of several institutes of advanced study. He teaches human ethology at Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck.
Wulf Schiefenhovel's cross-cultural research projects (mostly centered on Melanesia) include: human reproduction and birth, early infancy, non-verbal behaviour, aggression and aggression control, population genetics and history of Papuan and Austronesian dispersal, ethnomedical concepts and practices, socio-cultural correlates of handedness, language and cognition, evolutionary bases of human religious inclinations, management of acculturation, anthropology of food, evolutionary medicine, ethnoarchaeology, and ethnographic film.
Contributors:
Dr. Lafi Aldakak
Institute of Evolutionary Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Hans-Joachim Anders
Professor of Internal Medicine
Nephrological Centre of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University
Medical Clinic and Policlinic IV
Munich, Germany
Dr. Nicole Bender
Senior Research Fellow
Evolutionary Morphology and Adaptation Group
Institute of Evolutionary Medicine (IEM)
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Robin Bernstein
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Health and Society Program
Laboratory for Endocrinology and Growth Studies
University of Colorado, Boulder, United States of America
Dr. Barry Bogin
Professor of Biological Anthropology
School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences
Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Eve K. Boyle
Graduate Student
Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology
George Washington University
Washington, D.C., United States of America
Dr. Richard Gutierrez Bribiescas
Professor of Anthropology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
Faculty of Development & Diversity
Yale University
New Haven, CT, United States of America
Dr. Martin Brune
Professor of Psychiatry
LWL University Hospital Bochum
Dept. of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Preventive Medicine
Division of Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Dr. Ann E. Caldwell
Postdoctoral Fellow
Anschutz Health and Wellness Center,
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, USA
Dr. Olga Carvalho
Invited Assistant
Institute of Histology and Embryology
Faculty of Medicine
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Dr. James DeGregori
Professor
Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
University of Colorado
Anschutz Medical Campus
Aurora, CO, United States of America
Dr. S. Boyd Eaton
Assoc. Professor of Anthropology and Radiology (Emeritus)
Emory University and Emory School of Medicine
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America
Dr. Patrick Eppenberger
Institute of Evolutionary Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Paul W. Ewald
Professor and Director of the Program in Evolutionary Medicine
Department of Biology
University of Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
Josiane Fakhry
Graduate Student
Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience
University of Melbourne, Australia
Linda J Fothergill
Graduate Student
Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience
University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr. John B Furness
Professor
Digestive Physiology and Nutrition Laboratories
Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health
University of Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Joanna Gajewski
Digestive Physiology and Nutrition Laboratories
Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health
Australia
Dr. Francesco M. Galassi
Institute of Evolutionary Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Martin Hausler
Professor
Institute of Evolutionary Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Maciej Henneberg
Wood Jones Professor of Anthropological and Comparative Anatomy
The Universiy of Adelaide, Adelaide Medical School, Australia
Dr. Mark A. Hill
Dept. of Anatomy
School of Medical Sciences
University of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
Dr. Melvin Konner
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor
Department of Anthropology
Program in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, United States of America
Dr. Diana Le Duc
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Evolutionary Genetics
Leipzig, Germany
Dr. John N. Maina
Research Professor
Department of Zoology, Academic Respiration Physiology
University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
Professor of Medicine
UCLA Division of Cardiology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Adjunct Professor, UCLA Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
San Francisco, CA, United States of America
Dr. Randolph M. Nesse
Foundation Professor of Life Sciences and Founding Director
Center for Evolution and Medicine
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ, United States of America
Mehdi Nojoumi
Graduate Student
UCLA Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
San Francisco, CA, United States of America
Dr. Eric M. Pietras
Assistant Professor
Division of Hematology
University of Colorado Denver
Aurora, CO, United States of America
Dr. Daniel Promislow
Professor
Department of Pathology and Department of Biology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, United States of America
Dr. Paola Romagnani
Professor of Nephrology
Department of Biomedical and Experimental Sciences 'Mario Serio'
Excellence Centre for Research, Transfer and High Education for the development of DE NOVO Therapies (DENOTHE)
Paediatric Nephrology Unit, Meyer Children's Hospital
University of Florence, Italy
Dr. Graham A.W. Rook
Professor of Medical Microbiology
Centre for Clinical Microbiology, Department of Infection,
UCL (University College London), United Kingdom
Dr. Dr. Frank Ruhli
Professor
Institute of Evolutionary Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
University of Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Wulf Schiefenhovel
Professor of Medical Psychology and Ethnomedicine (Emeritus)
Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology
Human Ethology Group
Seewiesen, Germany
Dr. Torsten Schoneberg
Professor of Molecular Biochemistry
Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine
University of Leipzig, Germany
Dr. Kevin S. Shah
Cardiology Fellow
University of California
Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
Dr. Kalyanam Shivkumar
Professor of Medicine & Radiology
UCLA Cardiac Arrhythmia Center & EP Programs
Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, RR UCLA Medical Center
UCLA Health System
Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
Dr. Holly Swain-Ewald
Department of Biology
University of Louisville, Kentucky, United States of America
Dr. Wenda Trevathan
Regents Professor of Anthropology (Emerita)
New Mexico State University, NM, United States of America
Dr. Xiaqing Zhao
Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of Pathology
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, United States of America
