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New grant for project on Treatment for Psychological Trauma

Duncan Pederson and Alain Brunet together with Hanna Kienzler and Bhogendra Sharma were successful in receiving a Grand Challenges Canada grant to begin work in Nepal. The grant will enable them to pilot a reconsolidation blockade intervention with survivors of torture at the C-VICT centre in Kathmandu. The group will also carry out qualitative interviews with counsellors and survivors documenting narratives of distress.

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New Member

Dr. Brandon Kohrt, a psychiatrist anthropologist who has done extensive ethnographic and cultural psychiatric research in Nepal has joined the project to collaborate on work in Nepal.

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New Students

• Claire Champigny
• Eli Scheiner

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Study of cultural difference in hypnotizability/suggestibility

Amir Raz's student, Eli Sheiner has been doing preliminary research in Japan, interviewing academic researchers about the interaction between culture and hypnotic suggestion. Claire Champigny, also a student of Raz, is studying cross-cultural differences in hynotizability, with a view to developing a pilot study to be conducted with student populations in Singapore.听

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Folk Psychiatry and Mental Health Literacy

Lauren Ban, former postdoctoral fellow now based at the University of Melbourne, is developing a project to investigate cross-cultural differences in "folk theories" through which ideas of disorder/pathology are filtered. This will be used for a questionnaire and interview study to be done with psychology students in Singapore.

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Placebo Workshop

Placebos in the Clinic? Fostering Ethical, Educational, Policy and Practical Consensus

The meeting, Placebos in the Clinic? Fostering Ethical, Educational,听Policy and Practical Consensus, 听will bring together prominent placebo听researchers from diverse fields as well as physicians, policy makers and听related experts to discuss the realities of using placebos, placebo听effects and placebo-like treatments in clinical practice.

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Date:
May 23-24 2012 | 8:30am - 5:30pm | 不良研究所, Downtown Campus

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Mind, Brain & Culture Methods Workshop

This workshop presents the latest advances in a range of experimental听methodologies from brain imaging with MEG to epigenetics with the goal to听develop cross-disciplinary investigations of interactions between cultural听and neurobiological processes.

Date:
28 May 2012 | Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, 不良研究所听University

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Critical Neuroscience Workshop

This course provides an overview of recent controversies surrounding听cognitive neuroscience and the implications of the emerging fields of听social and cultural neuroscience for psychiatry, industry, policy and听other areas of social life. It will present key studies in social and听cultural neuroscience from the last two decades and examine the potentials听and limitations of predominant methodologies, particularly neuroimaging.听The course will present the interdisciplinary project of critical听neuroscience as a framework and set of tools with which to critically听analyze interpretations of neuroscience data in the academic literature,听their representation in popular domains and more broadly, the growth of听neurocultures since the Decade of the Brain. The course will problematize听and consider alternatives to neurobiological reductionism in psychiatry,听neuroethics, cultural neuroscience and neuropolicy, attending to the听models, metaphors and political contexts of mainstream brain research. It听will also explore various avenues for engagement between neuroscience,听social science and humanities.

This is an interdisciplinary graduate level course and part of the Summer听School in Transcultural Psychiatry. In-depth knowledge of neuroscience is听not required but some understanding of neuroimaging research in cognitive听neuroscience is useful. The course is relevant to neuroscientists听interested in the social and political implications of their research, as听well as psychiatrists, mental health workers and medical anthropologists听interested in the meaning, limits and possibilities of emerging forms of听"evidence" in biomedical cultures.

Date:
29 May - 1 June 2012

Faculty:
Suparna Choudhury, Ian Gold, Eric Jarvis, Laurence Kirmayer,听Daniel Margulies, Amir Raz, Jan Slaby, Allan Young

To register contact:
Virginia Fauras at听tcpsych [at] mcgill.ca