Choudhury, S. & Slaby, J. (Eds). (2012).听Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the听Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience, New York: Wiley.
Critical Neuroscience: an introduction
听Core readings:
听1. Choudhury, S. & Slaby, J. (2012) Proposal for a Critical Neuroscience in Critical听Neuroscience. A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience,听Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 29鈥�52.
听2. Ortega, F., Vidal, F. (2011). Approaching the Neurocultural Spectrum: An Introduction. In听idem. Neurocultures: Glimpses into an expanding Universe,听London, Z眉rich: Peter Lang,听7-26.
听3. Rouse, J. (1999). Understanding Scientific Practices: Cultural Studies of Science as a听Philosophical Program, in M. Biagioli, ed., Science Studies Reader, New York: Routledge,听442鈥�56.
听Supplementary readings:
听4. Choudhury, S., Nagel, S. K., & Slaby, J. (2009). Critical neuroscience: Linking neuroscience听and society through critical practice. BioSocieties, 4, 61鈥�77.
听5. Slaby, J. (2010). Steps towards a critical neuroscience. Phenomenology and the Cognitive听Sciences, 9, 397鈥�416.
听6. Latour, B. (2004). Why critique has run out of steam: From matters of fact to matters of听concern. Critical Inquiry, 30, 225鈥�248.
Neuroscience and the DSM 5
听Core readings:
听7. Kendler, K S. (2012) The Dappled Nature of Causes of Psychiatric Illness: Replacing the听Organic-functional/hardware-software Dichotomy with Empirically Based Pluralism. Mol听Psychiatry doi: mp2011182 [pii] 10.1038/mp.2011.182.
听8. Kupfer, D.J. and Regier, D.A. (2011), Neuroscience, Clinical Evidence and the Future of听Psychiatric Classification in DSM-5, Am J Psychiatry 168(7), 672鈥�675.
听Supplementary Readings:
听9. Insel, T., Heinssen, C., Marjorie, G., Pine, D.S., Quinn, K., Sanislow, C., Wang, P. (2010).听Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Toward a New Classification Framework for Research听on Mental Disorders, Am J Psychiatry 167(7), 748鈥�752.
Controversies in Neuroscience
听Controversies in Neuroimaging:
听10. Margulies, D. (2012). The salmon of doubt: Six months of methodological controversy.听Critical Neuroscience. A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience,听Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 273鈥�286.
听11. Vul, E., Harris, C., Winkielman, P. & Pashler, H. (2009). Puzzlingly high correlations in听fMRI studies of emotion, personality, and social cognition. Perspectives on Psychological听Science, 4, 274-290.
听12. Poldrack, R. (2008). The role of fMRI in cognitive neuroscience: where do we stand?听Current Opinion in Neurobiology 18: 223鈥�227.
听13. Button, K.S., Ioannidis, J.P.A., Mokrysz, C., Nosek, B.A., Flint, J., Robinson, E.S.J.,听Munaf貌 (2013). 鈥淧ower failure: Why small sample size undermines the reliability of听neuroscience鈥�, Nature Reviews Neuroscience 14, 1鈥�12.
听Critical Neuroscience of Violence and Trauma:
听14. Elbert, T., Weierstall, R. and Schauer, M. (2010), 鈥濬ascination Violence: on mind an brain听of man hunters鈥� Eur. Arch. Psych. Clin. Neurosci. 260, Suppl. 2, S100鈥�105
听15. Hecker, T., Hermenau, K., Maedl, A., Elbert, T., Schauer, M. (2012). "Appetitive听agression in former combattants 鈥� derived from the ongoing conflict in DR Congo鈥�,听International Journal of Law and Psychiatry听35(3), 244鈥�249
听16. Elbert, T. and Schauer M. (2010). "Dissociation following traumatic stress. etiology and听traumatic treatment鈥�, Journal of Psychology 218(2):109鈥�127.
BRAIN IMAGING: METHODS, CHALLENGES AND KINDS OF BRAINS
听The Rise of the Connectome
听Core readings:
听17. Biswal, B. et al. (2010). 鈥淭oward Discovery Science of Human Brain Function鈥�. PNAS, 9:听4734鈥�4739.
听18. Lichtman, R. and Sanes, J.R. (2008). 鈥淥me sweet ome: what can the genome tell us about听the connectome?鈥� Curr Opi Neurobiol 18, 346鈥�353.
听19. Crick, F.R. and Jones, S. (1993). 鈥淭he backwardness of human neuroanatomy鈥�, Nature 361,听109鈥�10.
Further readings on fMRI:
听20. Logothetis, N.K. (2008). 鈥淲hat we can do and cannot do with fMRI鈥�, Nature 453: 869鈥�878.
听21. Dumit, J. (2012). 鈥淐ritically Producing Brain Images of the Mind鈥�. In: Choudhury, S. &听Slaby, J. (eds.) Critical Neuroscience. A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of听Neuroscience, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 195鈥�225.
听22. Raz, A., & Wolfson, J. B. (2010). From Dynamic Lesions to Brain Imaging of Behavioral听Lesions: Alloying the Gold of Psychoanalysis with the Copper of Suggestion.听Neuropsychoanalysis, 12, 5-65.
Sculpting the developing brain in the clinic
听Core readings:
听23. Choudhury, S.; McKinney, K.A. & Merten, M. (2012). Rebelling against the brain: Public听engagement with the 鈥榥eurological adolescent鈥�. Social Science and Medicine, 74, 565鈥�573.
听24. Singh, I., & Rose, N. (2009). Biomarkers in psychiatry. Nature, 460(7252), 202e207.听
Supplementary Readings:
听25. Dahl, R. E. (2004). Adolescent brain development: a period of vulnerabilities and听opportunities. Keynote address. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1021, 1e22.
The suicidal brain
听Core readings:
听26. Niezen, R. A. (2009). 鈥淪uicide as a Way of Belonging: Causes and Consequences of听Cluster Suicides in Aboriginal Communities鈥�. In Healing traditions: the mental health of听Aboriginal peoples in Canada. L.J. Kirmayer and G.G. Valaskakis, (eds). Vancouver:听UBC Press (pp. 178-195).
听27. Turecki, G., et al. (2012). The neurodevelopmental origins of suicidal behavior. Trends听Neurosci 35(1): 14-23.
The social brain
听Core readings:
听28. Young, A. (2012). The social brain and the myth of empathy. Science in Context 25(3),听401-424.
听29. Cacioppo, J. T., Amaral, D. G., Blanchard, J. J., Cameron, J. L., Carter, C. S., Crews, D.,听Fiske, S., Heatherton, T., Johnson, M. K., Kozak, M. J., Levenson, R. W., Lord, C., Miller,听E. K., Ochsner, K., Raichle, M. E., Shea, M. T., Taylor, S. E., Young, L. J., & Quinn, K. J.听(2007). Social neuroscience: Progress and implications for mental health. Perspectives on听Psychological Science 2, 99鈥�123.
Supplementary readings:
听30. Frith, U. & Frith, C.D. (2006). The neural basis of mentalizing. Neuron, 50, 4, 531鈥�534.
Against Empathy: Critical Theory and the Social Brain
听Core readings:
听31. Slaby, J. (manuscript). 鈥淎gainst Empathy. Critical Theory and the Social Brain鈥�.
听32. Brinkmann, S. (2008). 鈥淐hanging psychologies in the transition from industrial society to听consumer societies. History of the human sciences 21(2), 85鈥�110.
听Supplementary Readings:
听33. Sunder- Rajan, K. (2006). Biocapital. The Construction of Postgenomic Life, ch. 3: 鈥淰ision听and Hype. The Conjuration of Promissory Biocapitalist Futures鈥�.
BRAIN AND CULTURE
听Cultural Neuroscience
听Core readings:
听34. Seligman, R. & Brown, R. (2009). Theory and Method at the Intersection of Anthropology听and Cultural Neuroscience, Social, Cognitive, and Affective Neuroscience,听doi:10.1093/scan/nsp032.
听35. Chiao, J. & Cheon., B (2012). Cultural Neuroscience as Critical Neuroscience in Practice,听in Critical Neuroscience. A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of听Neuroscience, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, (pp. 287-304).
听Supplementary readings:
听36. Kitayama, S., & Park, J. (2010). Cultural neuroscience of the self: Understanding the social听grounding of the brain. SCAN 5, 119鈥�129.
A social neuroscience model of delusion
听37. Bentall, R.P. and Udachina, A. (2013). 鈥淪ocial Cognition and the Dynamics of Paranoid听Ideation鈥� in: Roberts, D.L. and Penn D.L. (eds.) Social Cognition and Schizophrenia,听Oxford: Oxford University Press (pp. 215鈥�244).
听38. Gold, J. and Gold, I. (2012). 鈥淭he 鈥淭ruman Show鈥� delusion: Psychosis in the global听village鈥�, Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 1鈥�18, doi: 13546805.2012.666113
听39. Porter, R. (1985). 鈥淯nder the Influence: Mesmerism in England鈥�, History Today 35: 22鈥�29.
Executive Function and addiction
听Core readings:
听40. Bellegarde, Jennifer D., and Marc N. Potenza. (2010). "Neurobiology of Pathological听Gambling," in Ross, D., Kincaid, H., Spurrett, D. and Collins, P. (eds.) What is Addiction?听Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (pp. 27鈥�52).
听41. Monterosso, John R. et.al. (2010). 鈥淣eural Recruitment during Self-Control of Smoking: A听Pilot fMRI Study鈥� in idem, pp. 269鈥�289.
听Supplementary readings:
听42. Raikhel, Eugene, and William Garriott. (2013). "Introduction: Tracing new paths in the听anthropology of addiction," in idem (eds.) Addiction Trajectories. Durham, NC: Duke听University Press (pp. 1鈥�35).