Got Absorption? Towards a Neuroanthropology of Play and Ritual
Cross-posted with Neuroanthropology.
On Thursday, Nov. 17th at the American Anthropological Association meetings in Montreal, Canada, I attended a double panel of neuroanthropologists hosted by the Society for Psychological Anthropology. Organized by Christopher Dana Lynn (University of Alabama) and Jeffrey G. Snodgrass (Colorado State University), the panel was entitled …
Jonathan Metzl’s The Protest Psychosis: How schizophrenia became a black disease (Beacon Press, 2010) is an ideal introductory text for introducing students to ethical issues surrounding politics, prejudice, and psychiatric diagnosis. The reader will experience the indignity and paranoia that African American men being treated for schizophrenia in the 1960s and 1970s had to face. They will come to …An article this week in Nature highlights new issues surrounding the intersections of psychosis, clinical risk, and adolescence. Psychosis is now thought to lie along a “continuum” in the population from “at-risk” groups who have “psychotic-like experiences” (PLEs) (e.g., hallucinations and delusions that are transient or do not disrupt social functioning) (Meehl 1962; Polanczyk, Moffitt et al. 2010) to people …
Next week I will be posting a daily description of my experiences at Neuroschool 2010 at the University of Wuerzberg in Germany.
This year lectures and laboratory practicals will be hosted in the Department of Psychiatry at the Univesity of Wuerzburg headed by European Neuroscience Network member Dr. Klaus-Peter Lesch.…
The Madness within Us: Schizophrenia as a Neuronal Process
by Robert Freedman
Oxford University Press, 2009. 198 pages. $35.00 (hardcover)
A perusal of The Madness within Us: Schizophrenia as a Neuronal Process is well worth the time of anyone interested in schizophrenia research. Author Robert Freedman is a clinician and scholar who also has a family history of schizophrenia. Inspired …