Journal
TRANSCULTURAL PSYCHIATRY
Volume 57, Issue 3, Pages 387-407Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1363461519879515
Keywords
transcultural psychiatry; cultural neuroscience; fMRI; neural plasticity; culture-brain-behavior interaction model; CBB model; cognitive mediation
Categories
Funding
- German Ministry of Research and Education [BMBF/DLR-01GP1010]
- Sievert Stiftung fur Wissenschaft und Kultur [S248/10006/2013]
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Culture is part of an extensive series of feedback loops, which involve multiple organismic levels including social contexts, cognitive mediations, neural processes, and behavior. Recent studies in neuroscience show that culturally contingent social processes shape some neural pathways. Studying the influence of cultural context on neural processes may yield new insights into psychiatric disorders. New methodologies in the neurosciences offer innovative ways to assess the impact of culture on mental health and illness. However, implementing these methodologies raises important theoretical and ethical concerns, which must be resolved to address patient individuality and the complexity of cultural diversity. This article discusses cultural context as a major influence on (and consequence of) human neural plasticity and advocates a culture-brain-behavior (CBB) interaction model for conceptualizing the relationship between culture, brain, and psychiatric disorders. Recommendations are made for integrating neuroscientific techniques into transcultural psychiatric research by taking a systems approach to evaluating disorders.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available