The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience

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This Handbook examines disparities in public health by highlighting recent theoretical and methodological advances in cultural neuroscience. It traces the interactions of cultural, biological, and environmental factors that create adverse physical and mental health conditions among populations, and investigates how the policies of cultural and governmental institutions influence such outcomes. In addition to providing an overview of the current research, chapters demonstrate how a cultural neuroscience approach to the study of the mind, brain, and behavior can help stabilize the quality of health of societies at large. The volume will appeal especially to graduate students and professional scholars working in psychology and population genetics. The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience represents the first collection of scholarly contributions from the International Cultural Neuroscience Consortium (ICNC), an interdisciplinary group of scholars from epidemiology, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience, genetics, and psychiatry dedicated to advancing an understanding of culture and health using theory and methods from cultural neuroscience. The Handbook is intended to introduce future generations of scholars to foundations in cultural neuroscience, and to equip them to address the grand challenges in global mental health in the twenty-first century. Cover......Page 1 Series......Page 3 The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Short Contents......Page 6 Oxford Library of Psychology......Page 8 About the Editors......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Contributors......Page 14 Contents......Page 18 Introduction......Page 20 Color Plates......Page 24 Part One Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Cultural Neuroscience......Page 36 1. Locating Culture in the Brain and in the World: From Social Categories to the Ecology of Mind......Page 38 2. Cultural Neuroscience and Neurophilosophy: Does the Neural Code Allow for the Brain’s Enculturation?......Page 56 3. Sensory Enculturation and Neuroanthropology: The Case of Human Echolocation......Page 76 4. Health, Development, and the Culture-Ready Brain......Page 92 5. Culture as a Response to Uncertainty: Foundations of Computational Cultural Neuroscience......Page 116 Part Two Cultural Neuroscience of Emotion......Page 140 6. Cultural Values Modulate Emotional Processing in Human Amygdala......Page 142 7. Genes, Brain, and Culture Through a 5-HTT Lens......Page 156 8. Embodied Brains, Social Minds: Toward a Cultural Neuroscience of Social Emotion......Page 164 9. Cultural Neuroscience in South Africa: Promises and Pitfalls......Page 178 Part Three Cultural Neuroscience of Cognition......Page 188 10. Cross-Cultural Differences in Memory......Page 190 11. When Culture Informs Neuroscience: Considerations for Community-Based Neurogenetics Research and Clinical Care in a First Nation Community With Early Onset Familial Alzheimer Disease......Page 206 12. Quantifying Culture: The Cultural Distance Hypothesis of Melodic Expectancy......Page 218 Part Four Cultural Neuroscience of Social Cognition......Page 230 13. Cultural Neuroscience Studies of the Self-Reflection......Page 232 14. Identifying a Cultural Resource: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Familial Influence on Adolescent Risk Taking......Page 244 15. Cultural Differences in Emotional Expressions and Body Language......Page 258 Part Five Cultural Neuroscience of Intergroup Processes......Page 270 16. How Next-Generation Neuroscience Technologies Can Facilitate Comparison Across Cultural Contexts and Species: Implications for Global Health......Page 272 17. The Cultural Neuroscience of Intergroup Bias......Page 284 18. Cultural Neuroscience of Pain and Empathy......Page 306 Part Six Culture and Genetics......Page 312 19. The Gene–Culture Interaction Framework and Implications for Health......Page 314 20. Epigenetics and Social Behavior......Page 334 21. The Encultured Genome: Molecular Evidence for Recent Divergent Evolution in Human Neurotransmitter Genes......Page 350 Part Seven Linking Population Health Disparities and Cultural Neuroscience......Page 372 22. The Role of Culture in Population Mental Health: Prevalence of Mental Disorders Among Asian and Asian American Populations......Page 374 23. Culture, Genes, and Socioemotional Neurodevelopment: Searching for Clues to Common Mental Disorders......Page 390 Conclusion......Page 406 Index......Page 416