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