Biography
Dr Adam D. Hunt received his PhD in 2024 from the University of Z眉rich, for his dissertation titled 鈥楨volving Evolutionary Psychiatry and Explaining Neurodiversity鈥�. He has been researching evolutionary psychiatry since 2016, following a BA and MA concentrating on the philosophy of science. He has published several papers on evolutionary approaches to autism and neurodiversity, addiction, and the integration of evolutionary perspectives into medicine and psychiatry, and is working on his first book. He has organized symposia, workshops, and a special issue in the journal Evolution, Medicine and Public Health (where he is an associate editor) on mental health in non-industrialized populations. Dr Hunt is actively involved in academic societies, including roles with the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health and the Royal College of Psychiatrists' Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group. His research fellowship is being funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Research
Dr Hunt鈥檚 previous research concentrated primarily on strengthening the theoretical foundations of evolutionary psychiatry and explaining neurodiversity evolutionarily; his current research is directed at assessing the practical consequences of evolutionary perspectives on mental health, particularly via destigmatising and altering patient and public attitudes.
Key Publications
- Hunt, A.D; Procyshyn, T. (2024) 鈥淐hanging Perspectives on Autism: Overlapping Contributions of Evolutionary Psychiatry and the Neurodiversity Movement鈥� Autism Research,
- Hunt, A.D; Merola, G.P; Carpenter, T; Jaeggi, A.V. 鈥淓volutionary perspectives on Substance and Behavioural Addictions: distinct and shared pathways to understanding, prediction and prevention鈥� Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews,
- Hunt, A.D; Jaeggi, A.V. (tbc) 鈥淭he DCIDE Method: evolutionary explanations beyond just-so storytelling, exemplified with autism鈥� Under review
- Hunt, A.D. (2023) 鈥淢aking Wakefield Workable: The Fitness and Function Framework for Taxonomising Evolutionary Dysfunction.鈥� PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/qbgke.
- Hunt, A.D. (2023) 鈥淢aking Wakefield Warranted: The Hierarchy of Healing Harm and Discerning Dysfunction.鈥� PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/jmsnx.
- Katiyar, T*; Hunt, A.D*; Chaudhary, N; Jaeggi, A. V. (2023) 鈥淎n Antidote to Overpathologizing Computer-mediated Communication: An Evolutionary Perspective on Mixed Effects of Mismatch.鈥� PsyArXiv. doi:10.31234/osf.io/t4azn.
- Hunt, A.D; St John Smith, P; Abed, R. (2023) 鈥淓vobiopsychosocial Medicine鈥� Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health, pp.67鈥�77 doi:10.1093/emph/eoac041
- Hunt, A. D.; Jaeggi, A.V. (2022) 鈥淪pecialised minds: extending adaptive explanations of personality to the evolution of psychopathology鈥�, Evolutionary Human Sciences
- Hunt, A.D; St John Smith, P; Abed, R. (2022) 鈥淭he Biopsychosocial Model Advanced by Evolutionary Theory鈥� in Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health edited by Abed, R and St John-Smith, P.
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Other Professional Activities
Communications Director for the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health (ISEMPH)
Executive Committee member of the Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group, Royal College of Psychiatrists
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