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McGill’s Healthy Brains for Healthy Lives Initiative: Integrating Social Context into Neuroscience Research

May 3, 2018

By Constance A. Cummings, FPR Project Director In a recent…

FPR Sex/Gender Conference Summary: Part 3 – What Counts as Adequate Function?

June 6, 2016

The sex/gender conference succeeded in bringing together people…

FPR Sex/Gender Conference Summary: Part 2 – What’s Fixed, Changing, Changeable

April 14, 2016

Part 2 of the FPR-UCLA conference on sex/gender, which was chaired…

FPR Sex/Gender Conference Summary: Part I – Why Now?

April 14, 2016

Emerging theories in neuroscience – fueled by new technologies…

Special Issue on Sex Differences in Neuro/Psych Disorders (Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology)

January 11, 2016

Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology Volume 35, Issue 3, Pages 253-404…

From Toxins to Culture: How Environment Shapes the Infant Brain (AAAS 2016 Symposium)

December 11, 2015

A Must-Read: Nature Special Issue on Interdisciplinarity

September 21, 2015

This Fall, the FPR is celebrating fifteen years of interdisciplinary…

Conference Speaker Tom Boellstorff’s Virtual-World Research Featured on the Drax Files

September 15, 2015

"To call the physical world 'real life' is the number-one problem…

Mapping Out a Feminist Bioscience: Interview with Sari van Anders (Part 1)

May 1, 2015

Doing Feminist Bioscience: Interview with Sari van Anders…

Mapping Out a Feminist Bioscience: Interview with Sari van Anders (Part 2)

May 1, 2015

Doing Feminist Bioscience- Interview with Sari van Anders…

DSM-5 on Culture: A Significant Advance

February 13, 2015

[A]ll forms of distress are locally shaped, including the DSM…

Book Review: Liah Greenfeld’s Mind, Modernity, Madness

January 13, 2015

According to Liah Greenfeld, author of Mind, Modernity, Madness, “culture is an empirical reality of the first order in human life – that it, in the most profound sense of the word makes us human and defines human experience.”

Toward an Anthropological Theory of Mind: Introduction

November 12, 2014

In October 2011, a small, international gathering of twenty-seven anthropologists and psychologists took place at the Stanford Humanities Center, organized by Stanford anthropology professor Tanya Luhrmann and Culture and Mind postdoctoral fellows Julia Cassaniti, and Jocelyn Marrow.

Toward an Anthropological Theory of Mind: Selves

October 13, 2014

The session on “selves” in many ways revisited some classic questions in psychological anthropology: “To what extent are selves culturally constituted? If selves are only partially constituted by culture, what other factors play a part in their makeup?

CBDMH Psychosis Workshop Summary, Pt. 2

June 9, 2014

Today’s talk, which was richly illustrated with film clips from his documentary series Afflictions, focused on three areas: diagnosis and healing, illness experience, and outcome (see also Lemelson & Tucker, in press-a; and Lemelson & Tucker, in press-b, for more on the making of Afflictions).

CBDMH Psychosis Workshop Summary, Pt. 1

January 18, 2014

Last weekend, the FPR-CBDMH program held its inaugural winter workshop for CBDMH students and affiliated faculty at UCLA, bringing together an informal group to share research and perspectives on a topic of general interest: “Rethinking Psychosis: Culture, Brain, and Context.”