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The Foundation for Psychocultural Research (FPR) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit听corporation based in Los Angeles that supports and advances听interdisciplinary research projects and scholarship at the intersection of听psychology, culture, neuroscience, and psychiatry, with an emphasis on听cultural factors as central, not peripheral. The FPR was founded in听December 1999 with a gift from Robert B. Lemelson, a documentary filmmaker听and psychological anthropologist on the UCLA faculty.
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Exploring issues at the intersection of brain, mind, culture, and mental听health.
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The Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry is a network of听scholars and clinicians within the Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of听Medicine, 捆绑SM社区, devoted to promoting research, training and听consultation in social and cultural psychiatry.
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A collaborative website covering the intersections of medical听anthropology, science and technology studies, cultural psychiatry,听psychology and bioethics.
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Critical Neuroscience probes the extent to which discussion of听neuroscience-in ethical debates, policy texts, commercial and clinical听projects-matches the achievements and potential of neuroscience itself. It听examines the ways in which the new sciences and technologies of the brain听lead to classifying people in new ways, and the effects this can have on听social and personal life. It studies both the methods used to gain new听knowledge, and the ways in which the knowledge is interpreted and used.听The project hopes to introduce our observations into brain research听itself, and to integrate them into new experimental and interpretive听directions.
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'Neuroanthropology' is a broad term, intended to embrace all dimensions of听human neural activity, including emotion, perception, cognitive, motor听control, skill acquisition, and a range of other issues. Unlike previous听ways of doing psychological or cognitive anthropology, it remains open and听heterogeneous, recognizing that not all brain systems function in the same听way, so culture will not take hold of them in identical fashion. Although听we believe that human neural structure is biological and the product of听evolution, we also recognize that the development processes shaping each听individual include a host of other forces as well, so that we cannot听privilege any single cause over all other.