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.

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Contents

۱. Locating Culture in the Brain and in the World: From Social Categories to the Ecology of Mind
۲. Cultural Neuroscience and Neurophilosophy: Does the Neural Code Allow for the Brain’s Enculturation?
۳. Sensory Enculturation and Neuroanthropology: The Case of Human Echolocation
۴. Health,. Development, and the Culture-Ready Brain
۵. Culture as a Response to Uncertainty: Foundations of Computational Cultural Neuroscience
۶. Cultural Values Modulate Emotional Processing in Human Amygdala
۷. Genesr Brain, and Culture Through a 5-HTT Lens
۸. Embodied Brains, Social Minds: Toward a Cultural Neuroscience of Social Emotion
۹. Cultural Neuroscience in South Africa: Promises and Pitfalls
۱۰. Cross-Cultural Differences in Memory
۱۱. When Culture Informs Neuroscience: Considerations for Community-Based Neurogenetics Research and Clinical Care in a First Nation Community With Early Onset Familial Alzheimer Disease
۱۲. Quantifying Culture: The Cultural Distance Hypothesis of Melodic Expectancy
۱۳. Cultural Neuroscience Studies of the Self-Reflection
۱۴. Identifying a Cultural Resource: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Familial Influence on Adolescent Risk Taking
۱۵. Cultural Differences in Emotional Expressions and Body Language
۱۶. How Next-Generation Neuroscience Technologies Can Facilitate Comparison Across Cultural Contexts and Species: Implications for Global Health
۱۷. The Cultural Neuroscience of Intergroup Bias
۱۸. Cultural Neuroscience of Pain and Empathy
۱۹. The Gene-Culture Interaction Framework and Implications for Health
۲۰. Epigenetics and Social Behavior
۲۱. The Encultured Genome: Molecular Evidence for Recent Divergent Evolution in Human Neurotransmitter Genes
۲۲. The Role of Culture in Population Mental Health: Prevalence of Mental Disorders Among Asian and Asian American Populations
۲۳. Culture, Genes, and Socioemotional Neurodevelopment: Searching for Clues to Common Mental Disorders