Stress & Resilience

Neurobiological, Psychiatric, and Cultural Perspectives

The following talks are featured in this video, which is from the FPR-UCLA 5th interdisciplinary conference on Culture, Mind, and Brain: Emerging Concepts, Methods, Applications, which took place at UCLA on 19–20 October 2012. 

0:00:00 Introduction by Daniel Lende (Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida) and first talk by Paul Plotsky (Stress Neurobiology Lab, Emory University) on “Early life adver­sity, allosta­sis, and resilience.”

0:30:16  “Cul­tural mean­ing, social struc­ture, and the stress process: Lessons from hyper­ten­sion in the African Dias­pora,” Clarence Gravlee (Depart­ment of Anthro­pol­ogy, Uni­ver­sity of Florida)

0:57:09  “From ethnog­ra­phy to epi­ge­net­ics: Mixed meth­ods men­tal health research in Nepal,” Bran­don Kohrt (Depart­ment of Psy­chi­a­try & Behav­ioral Sci­ences, George Wash­ing­ton University)