Culture, Mind &听Brain听is a new seminar series, hosted by the Culture, Mind & Brain Program of the听Division of Social &听Transcultural Psychiatry听and the听Healthy Brains Healthy Lives Initiative.听The goal is for students and researchers of neuroscience, psychiatry, anthropology and other areas听related to mental health to discuss bodies of research and work听in progress听(experimental and theoretical)听that relate to neuroscience and society, and mind,听brain听and culture. We will discuss topics such as how to design multidisciplinary听methodologies that integrate social, ethical and cultural contexts into experimental studies of听brain structure, function and development; we will听analyze the potentials and limits of brain data for health and social policy; and critically assess translations of brain data into popular science pieces.听
For more information, please e-mail samuel.veissiere [at] mcgill.ca (Professor Samuel Veissi猫re).
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TITLE: "Real-Time Social Cognition: Divergent Mentalizing and Preserved Mirroring in Children with Autism鈥�
PRESENTER:听Veronika Dudarev, Ph.D.
DATE:听November 7, 2024
TIME:听3:00听- 5:00pm EST
HYBRID EVENT
In-person location: Ludmer 138
听required for remote attendance听
TITLE: "Life Beyond the Blind Spot鈥�
PRESENTER: Evan Thompson, Ph.D.
DATE:听October 31 , 2024
TIME: 3:00 - 5:00pm EST
HYBRID EVENT
In-Person Room 138, Ludmer Building
In-person registration, click听
Zoom registration, click
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2024
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| November 7 | Veronika Dudarev, Ph.D. | Real-Time Social Cognition: Divergent Mentalizing and Preserved Mirroring in Children with Autism |
| October 31 | Evan Thompson, Ph.D. | Life Beyond the Blind Spot |
| February 15 | Nicolas Langlitz, M.D., Ph.D. | Psychedelic Therapy as Form of Life |
| January 18 | Ira Helderman, Ph.D., L.P.C | The听DSM, Meditation听Sickness, and听other听鈥淩eligious听or听Spiritual听Problems鈥� |
2023
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| March 16 | Junko Kitanaka, PhD | Against new healthism: the rise of Tojisha movement and the debates around the prevention of dementia in Japan |
| February 16 | Ivan Kroupin, PhD | From rich(er) to lean(er) systems: towards a formal theory of cultural-cognitive variation across history and geography |
2022
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| April 14 | Peter Sterling, PhD | |
| March 10 | Roy Richard Grinker, PhD | |
| March 3 | Kathryn Tabb, PhD | |
| February 10 | Somogy Varga, PhD &听Asbj酶rn Steglich-Petersen, PhD | Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Recalcitrant Emotion: Relocating the Seat of Irrationality |
| January 20 | Marga Vicedo, PhD |
2021
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| November 11 | Igor Grossmann, PhD | Folk epistemology of (ir)rationality |
| March 18 | Tara Mahfoud, PhD | |
| March 11 | Samuel Veissi猫re, PhD | |
| January 21 | Daniel D. Hutto, BA, MPhil, DPhil | |
| January 7 | Dietrich Stout, PhD |
2020
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| November 5 | Georg Northoff, MD, PhD | |
| October 29 | Shinobu Kitayama, PhD | |
| October 1 | Carol M. Worthman, PhD | |
| September 24 | Laurence Kirmayer, MD | |
| January 23 | Kenneth J. Zucker, PhD, CPsych | Children and Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria: Some Contemporary Research and Clinical Issues |
2019
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| November 28 | Suze Berkhout, MD, PhD, FRCPC | Grappling with Cure/Harm: Feminist STS, Critical Disability Studies Meets Placebo and Nocebo Studies |
| November 7 | David Dupuis, PhD | The Socialization of Hallucinations: Cultural Priors, Social Interactions and Contextual Factors in the use of Ayahuasca |
| April 25 | Laura Otis, PhD | The Insidious Work of Emotion Metaphors |
| March 28 | Jacqueline Sullivan, PhD | Coordinating Scientific Perspectives in Experimental Contexts: Lessons from Translational Cognitive Neuroscience and the RDOC Project |
| March 14 | Dietrich Stout, PhD | Human Evolutionary Neuroscience: Life in the Technological Niche |
| February 28 | Rob Boddice, MA, PhD, FRHistS | Biocultural History and the Turn to Experience |
| January 31 | Bican Polat, Ph.D. | Cerebralizing Attachment: How Have Parent-Child Relationships Come to be Explained as Brain Facts? |
2018
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| December 6 | Elizabeth Pienkos, Psy.D. | Existential Orientations and Schizophrenia: Personhood, Pathology, and Culture |
| October 25 | Dr. Jesse Proudfoot | Traumatic Landscapes: Two Geographies of Addiction |
| August 9 | Professor Maria Kozhevnikov | The Effect of Vajrayana Buddhism on Enhancing Human Cognition |
| May 4 | Professor Fernando Vidal | Phenomenology of the Locked-in Syndrome |
| March 15 | Dr. Ana G贸mez-Carrillo | Operationalizing Multi-level Loops in Affective Disorders |
| February 15 | Professor Samuel Veissi猫re & Moriah Stendel | Hypernatural Monitoring: A Social Rehearsal Account of Smartphone Addiction |
| February 8 | Michael Lifshitz | Suggestion as a mechanism in contemplative practice |
| January 25 | Jay Olson, PhD Candidate | Placebo machines, the culture of neuroscience, and the power of suggestion |
| January 11 | Maxwell Ramstead & Vincent Lalibert茅 | How Can the Social Sciences Contribute to the Neurosciences? |