ReviewProgress in brain research2009
Cultural neuroscience and psychopathology: prospects for cultural psychiatry.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 68 citations in OpenAlex.
- Evaluating and addressing demographic disparities in medical large language models: a systematic review.International journal for equity in health · 2025Pooled it
- Cultural concepts of distress and psychiatric disorders: literature review and research recommendations for global mental health epidemiology.International journal of epidemiology · 2014Pooled it
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- Biocultural Aspects of Mental Distress: Expanding the Biomedical Model Towards an Integrative Biopsychosocial Understanding of Disorder.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2024Review
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- Youth psychopathology: Universal or culture-specific? Testing the syndrome models of youth self-report in Chinese population.Journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing : official publication of the Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nurses, Inc · 2022Article
- Reconceptualizing Psychosis: The Hearing Voices Movement and Social Approaches to Health.Health and human rights · 2020Article
- Cultural considerations in the classification of mental disorders: why and how in ICD-11.BMC medicine · 2020Article
- Potentially traumatic experiences of seafarers.Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England) · 2019Article
- "Seeing Color," A Discussion of the Implications and Applications of Race in the Field of Neuroscience.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2019Article
- Cross-Cultural Effects of Cannabis Use Disorder: Evidence to Support a Cultural Neuroscience Approach.Current addiction reports · 2017Article
- The Epidemiology of Antisocial Behavioral Syndromes in Adulthood: Results From the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III.The Journal of clinical psychiatry · 2017Article
- Social Science and Neuroscience beyond Interdisciplinarity: Experimental Entanglements.Theory, culture & society · 2015Article
- The uncanny return of the race concept.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2014Article
- What kind of science for psychiatry?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2014Review
- Culturing the adolescent brain: what can neuroscience learn from anthropology?Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2010Review
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Abstract
There is a long tradition that seeks to understand the impact of culture on the causes, form, treatment, and outcome of psychiatric disorders. An early, colonialist literature attributed cultural characteristics and variations in psychopathology and behavior to deficiencies in the brains of colonized peoples. Contemporary research in social and cultural neuroscience holds the promise of moving beyond these invidious comparisons to a more sophisticated understanding of cultural variations in brain function relevant to psychiatry. To achieve this, however, we need better models of the nature of psychopathology and of culture itself. Culture is not simply a set of traits or characteristics shared by people with a common geographic, historical, or ethnic background. Current anthropology understands culture as fluid, flexible systems of discourse, institutions, and practices, which individuals actively use for self-fashioning and social positioning. Globalization introduces new cultural dynamics and demands that we rethink culture in relation to a wider domain of evolving identities, knowledge, and practice. Psychopathology is not reducible to brain dysfunction in either its causes, mechanisms, or expression. In addition to neuropsychiatric disorders, the problems that people bring to psychiatrists may result from disorders in cognition, the personal and social meanings of experience, and the dynamics of interpersonal interactions or social systems and institutions. The shifting meanings of culture and psychopathology have implications for efforts to apply cultural neuroscience to psychiatry. We consider how cultural neuroscience can refine use of culture and its role in psychopathology using the example of adolescent aggression as a symptom of conduct disorder.
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