Human Brain Evolution - vulnerability to neuropsychiatric disease by design? Martin Brune

Martin Brune is Professor of Psychiatry and head of division of social neuropsychiatry and evolutionary medicine at LWL University Hospital, Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. He has authored more than 250 articles and book chapters, and a Textbook of Evolutionary Psychiatry which had its second edition in 2016.
Martin's current research projects include the analysis of social cognition, psychosis, personality disorders; the association of social cognition and social functioning on nonverbal behavior; the effects of oxytocin on social perception and cognition in psychiatric disorders; nonverbal interaction in therapeutic settings; and genetics and epigenetics involved in social interaction and psychopathology in non-human animals.
This webinar was presented to the Evolutionary Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association.