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Constance A. Cummings, PhD (@thefpr_org), is Project Director of the non-profit Foundation for Psychocultural Research, which supports and advances interdisciplinary research and scholarship at the intersection of brain, mind, culture, and mental health and illness. She is co-editor of two volumes published by Cambridge University Press: Formative Experiences: The Interaction of Caregiving, Culture, and Developmental Psychobiology (2010) with biocultural anthropologist Carol Worthman, neurobiologist Paul Plotsky, and child psychiatrist Dan Schechter) and the forthcoming Revisioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health with cultural psychiatrist Laurence Kirmayer and psychological anthropologist Rob Lemelson. She received her doctorate in theoretical syntax from New York University and her AB in classics from Brown University.

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Molecular Psychiatry – Abstract of article: A neurogenetics approach to understanding individual differences in brain, behavior, and risk for psychopathology

February 26, 2013 in Brain & Behavior, Imaging Genetics, Neurogenetics /by connie

Neurogenetics research has begun to advance our understanding of how genetic variation gives rise to individual differences in brain function, which, in turn, shapes behavior and risk for psychopathology. Despite these advancements, neurogenetics research is currently confronted by three major challenges: (1) conducting research on individual variables with small effects, (2) absence of detailed mechanisms, […]

Neuron – Rare Inherited Variation in Autism: Beginning to See the Forest and a Few Trees

February 26, 2013 in Autism Spectrum Disorder /by connie

Link to an overview in Jan 2013 Neuron by UCLA researchers Jason Stein, Neelroop Parikshak, and Daniel Geschwind of the Geschwind Lab: ScienceDirect.com – Neuron – Rare Inherited Variation in Autism: Beginning to See the Forest and a Few Trees.

Neuron – The Future of Memory: Remembering, Imagining, and the Brain

February 26, 2013 in Memory /by connie

Here’s a link to a recent (11/2012) paper in Neuron co-authored by Nathan Spreng, a recent special guest lecturer at CBDMH: ScienceDirect.com – Neuron – The Future of Memory: Remembering, Imagining, and the Brain. Abstract: During the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in research examining the role of memory in imagination […]

AAAS: Mapping the brain – Only connect | The Economist

February 21, 2013 in Connectome /by connie

Are psychiatric disorders, which leave no visible trace in the brain, caused by connectopathies? The American Association for the Advancement of Science: mapping the brain: Only connect | The Economist.

Madness or sadness? Local concepts of mental illness in four conflict-affected African communities (Abstract)

February 21, 2013 in Challenges of Interdisciplinary Research /by connie

http://www.conflictandhealth.com/content/7/1/3/abstract Madness or sadness? Local concepts of mental illness in four conflict-affected African communities Peter Ventevogel, Mark Jordans, Ria Reis and Joop de Jong For all author emails, please log on. Conflict and Health 2013, 7:3 doi:10.1186/1752-1505-7-3 Published: 18 February 2013 Abstract (provisional) Background Concepts of ‘what constitutes mental illness’, the presumed aetiology and preferred treatment options, vary considerably from one cultural context […]

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