Depressive Rumination
Andrews, P. W., Altman, M., Sevcikova, M., & Cacciatore, J. (2021). An evolutionary approach to grief-related rumination: Construction and validation of the Bereavement Analytical Rumination Questionnaire. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42, 441-452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.03.007
Andrews, P. W., Maslej, M. M., Thomson, J. A., Jr. & Hollon, S. D. (2020). Disordered doctors or rational rats? Testing adaptationist and disorder hypotheses for melancholic depression and their relevance for clinical psychology. Clinical Psychology Review, 82, 101927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2020.101927
Maslej, M. M., Mulsant, B. H., & Andrews, P. W. (2020). The nature of depressive rumination and its connection with depressive symptoms. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 39(9), 761-787. https://doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2020.39.9.761
Ševčíková, M., Maslej, M. M., Stipl, J., Andrews, P. W., Pastrnak, M., Vechetova, G., Bartoskova, M., & Preiss, M. (2020). Testing the analytical rumination hypothesis: Exploring the longitudinal effects of problem solving analysis on depression. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, article 1134. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01344
Maslej, M. M., Froentjes, L., Srikanth, N., & Andrews, P. W. (2020). Why does expressive writing affect emotion? Considering the impact of valence and cognitive processing. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement. 52(2), 85-96. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000167
Maslej, M. M., Rheaume, A. R., Schmidt, L. A., & Andrews, P. W. (2019). Using expressive writing to test an evolutionary hypothesis about depressive rumination: Sadness coincides with causal analysis of a personal problem, not problem-solving analysis. Evolutionary Psychological Science, 6, 119-135. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40806-019-00219-8
Bartoskova, M., Sevcikova, M., Durisko, Z., Maslej, M. M., Barbic, S. P., Preiss, M. & Andrews, P. W. (2018). The form and function of depressive rumination. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39, 277-289. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2018.01.005
Durisko, Z., Mulsant, B. H., McKenzie, K. & Andrews, P. W. (2016). Using evolutionary theory to guide mental health research. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 61(3), 159-165. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0706743716632517
Durisko, Z., Mulsant, B. H. & Andrews, P. W. (2015). An adaptationist perspective on the etiology of depression. Journal of Affective Disorders, 172, 315-323. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2014.09.032
Barbic, S. P., Durisko, Z. & Andrews, P. W. (2014). Measuring the bright side of being blue: A new tool for assessing analytical rumination in depression. PLoS ONE, 9(11), e112077. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0112077
Andrews, P. W. & Thomson, J. A., Jr. (2009). The bright side of being blue: Depression as an adaptation for analyzing complex problems. Psychological Review, 116(3), 620-654. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/a0016242
The Neurobiology of Depression and the Serotonin System
Andrews, P. W., & Amsterdam, J. D. (2020). A hormetic approach to understanding antidepressant effectiveness and the development of antidepressant tolerance. Psychiatria Polska, 54(6), 1067–1090. https://doi.org/10.12740/PP/120084
Andrews, P. W., Bharwani, A., Lee, K. R., Fox, M. & Thomson, Jr., J. A. (2015). Is serotonin an upper or a downer? The evolution of the serotonergic system and its role in depression and the antidepressant response. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 51 (April), 164-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2015.01.018
Treatments for Depression
Hollon, S. D., Andrews, P. W., Keller, M. C., Singla, D. R., Maslej, M. M., & Mulsant, B. H. (2021). Combining psychotherapy and medications: Its all about the squids and sea bass (at least for nonpsychotic patients). In: M. Barkham, W. Lutz, & L. G. Castonguay (eds.), Bergin and Garfield’s handbook of psychotherapy and behavior change (7th ed), pp. 705-738. New York: Wiley.
Hollon, S. D., Andrews, P. W., & Thomson, J. A., Jr. (2021). Cognitive behavior therapy for depression from an evolutionary perspective. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, article 667592. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.667592
Hollon, S. D., Andrews, P. W., Singla, D. R., Maslej, M. M., & Mulsant, B. H. (2021). Evolutionary theory and the treatment of depression: It is all about the squids and the sea bass. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 143, article 103849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2021.103849
Maslej, M. M., Furukawa, T. A., Cipriani, A., Andrews, P. W., Sanches, M., Tomlison, A., Volkmann, C., McCutcheon, R. A., Howes, P., Guo, X. & Mulsant, B. H. (2021). Individual differences in response to antidepressants: A meta-analysis of placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials. JAMA Psychiatry, 78(5), 490-497. https://doi:10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.4564
Hollon, S. D., DeRubeis, R. J., Andrews, P. W., & Thomson, J. A., Jr., (2021). Cognitive therapy in the treatment and prevention of depression: A fifty-year retrospective with an evolutionary coda. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 45, 402-417. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-020-10132-1
Hollon, S. D., Cohen, Z. D., Singla, D. R. & Andrews, P. W. (2019). Recent developments in the treatment of depression. Behavior Therapy, 50(2), 257-269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.beth.2019.01.002
Maslej, M. M., Bolker, B. M., Russell, M. J., Eaton, K., Durisko, Z., Hollon, S. D., Swanson, G. M., Thomson, Jr., J. A., Mulsant, B. H. & Andrews, P. W. (2017). The mortality and myocardial effects of antidepressants are moderated by pre-existing cardiovascular disease: A meta-analysis. Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, 86, 268-282. https://doi.org/10.1159/000477940
Andrews, P. W., Thomson, J. A., Jr., Amstadter, A. & Neale, M. C. (2012). Primum non nocere: An evolutionary analysis of whether antidepressants do more harm than good. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, article 117. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00117
Andrews, P. W., Kornstein, S. G., Halberstadt, L. J., Gardner, C. O. & Neale, M. C. (2011). Blue again: Perturbational effects of antidepressants suggest monoaminergic homeostasis in major depression. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, article 159. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00159
Fever
Shephard, A. M., Bharwani, A., Durisko, Z. & Andrews, P. W. (2016). Reverse engineering the febrile system. The Quarterly Review of Biology, 91(4), 419-457. https://doi.org/10.1086/689482
Earn, D. J. D., Andrews, P. W. & Bolker, B. (2014). The population-level effects of suppressing fever. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, B. 281 (1778), article 20132570. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2570