Publications

Aggarwal, N. K., Jarvis, G. E., Gómez-Carrillo, A., Kirmayer, L. J., & Lewis-Fernández, R. (2020). The Cultural Formulation Interview since DSM-5: Prospects for training, research, and clinical practice. Transcultural Psychiatry, 57(4), 496-514.

Bouizegarene, N., Ramstead, M., Constant, A., Friston, K., & Kirmayer, L.J. (submitted). Narrative as active inference.

Choudhury, S., & Aggarwal, N. K. (2020). Reporting Grantee Demographics for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Neuroscience. Journal of Neuroscience, 40(41), 7780-7781.

Choudhury, S. & Berson, J. (2020). Liminal brains in uncertain futures. In L. J. Kirmayer, C. M. Worthman, S. Kitayama, R. Lemelson, and C. A. Cummings, Culture, mind, and brain: Emerging concepts, methods, applications, (Chapter 14). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Choudhury, S.*, Khundrakpam, B.*, Vainik, U., Al-Sharif, N., Bhutani, N., Jeon, S. Gold, I., Evans, A. (2020). Distinct influence of parental occupation on cortical thickness and surface area in children and adolescents: Relation to self-esteem. Human Brain Mapping, 41, 18, 5097-5113.

Constant, A., Bervoets, J., Hens, K., & Van de Cruys, S. (2020). Precise worlds for certain minds: An ecological perspective on the relational self in autism. Topoi, 39(3), 611-622.

Constant, A., Friston, K. J., & Ramstead, M. J. (2020). What kind of explanation is the constructing and coasting strategy?: Comment on:" The sense of should: A biologically-based framework for modeling social pressure" by Jordan E. Theriault, Liane Young, and Lisa Feldman Barrett. Physics of life reviews, S1571-0645.

Constant, A., Ramstead, M. J. D., Veissière, S. P. L., & Friston, K. J. (2018). A variational approach to niche construction. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. doi:10.1098/rsif.2017.0685.

Constant, A., Tschantz, A., Millidge, B., Criado-Boado, F., Martinez, L. M., Müller, J., & Clark, A. (2020). The Acquisition of Culturally Patterned Attention Styles under Active Inference.

Gómez-Carrillo, A., Lencucha, R., Faregh, N., Veissière, S., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2020). Engaging culture and context in mhGAP implementation: fostering reflexive deliberation in practice. BMJ Global Health, 5(9), e002689.

Hesp, C., Ramstead, M. J. D., Constant, A., Badcock, P. B., Kirchhoff, M. D., Friston, K. J. (In press). A multi-scale view of the emergent complexity of life: A free-energy proposal. In Price, M. (Ed.), Evolution, Development, and Complexity: Multiscale Models in Complex Adaptive Systems. Springer.

Hesp, C., Smith, R., Parr, T., Allen, M., Friston, K. J., & Ramstead, M. J. (2021). Deeply felt affect: The emergence of valence in deep active inference. Neural Computation, 33(1), 1-49.

Hipólito, I., Ramstead, M., Constant, A., & Friston, K. J. (2020). Cognition coming about: Self-organisation and free-energy: Commentary on Wright, JJ and Bourke, PD (2020)“The growth of cognition: Free energy minimization and the embryogenesis of cortical computation”. Physics of Life Reviews.

Jarvis, G. E., Kirmayer, L. J., Gómez-Carrillo, A., Aggarwal, N. K., & Lewis-Fernández, R. (2020). Update on the Cultural Formulation Interview. Focus, 18(1), 40-46.

Khundrakpam, B., Choudhury, S., Vainik, U., Al‐Sharif, N., Bhutani, N., Jeon, S., ... & Evans, A. (2020). Distinct influence of parental occupation on cortical thickness and surface area in children and adolescents: Relation to self‐esteem. Human Brain Mapping, 41(18), 5097-5113.

Kirmayer, L.J. (2018). Ontologies of life: From thermodynamics to teleonomics. Comment on “Answering Schrödinger’s question: A free-energy formulation” by Maxwell James Désormeau Ramstead et al. Physics of Life Reviews, 24: 29-31.

Kirmayer, L.J. (2016). Unpacking the placebo response: Insights from ethnographic studies of healing. In: A. Raz & C. Harris (Eds.) Placebo Talks: Modern Perspectives on Placebos in Society (pp. 119-143). New York: Oxford University Press.

Kirmayer, L.J. (2015). Re-visioning psychiatry: Toward an ecology of mind in health and illness. In: Kirmayer, L.J., Lemelson, R. & Cummings, C. (Eds.) Re-visioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience and Global Mental Health (pp. 622-660). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Kirmayer, L.J. (2012). The future of critical neuroscience. In: S. Choudhury & J. Slaby (eds.) Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience (pp. 367-383), Oxford: Blackwell.

Kirmayer, L.J. & Gold, I. (2012). Re-socializing psychiatry: Critical neuroscience and the limits of reductionism. In: S. Choudhury & J. Slaby (eds.) Critical Neuroscience: A Handbook of the Social and Cultural Contexts of Neuroscience (pp. 307-330), Oxford: Blackwell.

Kirmayer, L.J., Gomez-Carrillo, A., Langlois-Therien, T., Ramstread, M. & Gold, I. (2020). Culture, self and agency: An ecosocial view. In L. J. Kirmayer, C. M. Worthman, S. Kitayama, R. Lemelson, & C. A. Cummings, Culture, mind, and brain: Emerging concepts, methods, applications, (Chapter 8). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Kirmayer, L.J. & Ramstead, M.J.D. (2017). Embodiment and enactment in cultural psychiatry. In: C. Durt, T. Fuchs, & C. Tewes (Eds.) Embodiment, Enactment and Culture: Investigating the Constitution of the Shared World (pp. 397-422). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kirmayer, L.J., Veissière, S. & Gomez Carrillo, A. (2017). Culture and depression in global mental health: An ecosocial approach to the phenomenology of psychiatric disorders. Social Science and Medicine, 183: 163-168.

Kirmayer, L.J., Worthman, C. & Kitayama, S. (2020). Co-constructing culture. mind, and brain. In L. J. Kirmayer, C. M. Worthman, S. Kitayama, R. Lemelson, & C. A. Cummings, Culture, mind, and brain: Emerging concepts, methods, applications (Chapter 1). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Kirmayer, L.J., Worthman, C. & Kitayama, S. (2020). Interdisciplinarity in the study of culture, mind and brain. In L. J. Kirmayer, C. M. Worthman, S. Kitayama, R. Lemelson, & C. A. Cummings, Culture, mind, and brain: Emerging concepts, methods, applications, (Chapter 22). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Kirmayer, L.J., Worthman, C. M., Kitayama, S., Lemelson, R., & Cummings, C. (Eds.). (2020). Culture, mind, and brain: Emerging concepts, models, and applications. Cambridge University Press.

Lee, B.O. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2020). Dang-ki healing: An embodied, relational healing practice in Singapore. Transcultural Psychiatry,

Olson, J. A., Stendel, M., & Veissière, S. (2020). Hypnotised by your phone? Smartphone addiction correlates with hypnotisability. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 578.

Olson, J. A., Suissa-Rocheleau, L., Lifshitz, M., Raz, A., & Veissière, S. P. (2020). Tripping on nothing: placebo psychedelics and contextual factors. Psychopharmacology, 237(5), 1371-1382.

Paris, J. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2016). The National Institute of Mental Health Research Domain Criteria: A bridge too far. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 204(1): 26-32.

Ramstead, M. J. D., Badcock, P. B., & Friston, K. J. (2018). Variational neuroethology: Answering further questions: Reply to comments on “Answering Schrödinger's question: A free-energy formulation”. Physics of Life Reviews, 24, 59-66. A response to the peer commentaries on our target paper.

Ramstead, M. J. D., Badcock, P. B., & Friston, K. J. (2018). Answering Schrödinger’s question: A free-energy formulation. Physics of Life Reviews, 24, 1-16. Target paper with 14 peer commentaries.

Ramstead, M. J., Friston, K. J., & Hipólito, I. (2020). Is the free-energy principle a formal theory of semantics? From variational density dynamics to neural and phenotypic representations. Entropy, 22(8), 889.

Ramstead, M. J., Hesp, C., Tschantz, A., Smith, R., Constant, A., & Friston, K. (2020). Neural and phenotypic representation under the free-energy principle. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews.

Ramstead, M. J. D., Kirchhoff, M. D., Constant, A., & Friston, K. J. (In press; online 2019). Multiscale integration: Beyond internalism and externalism. Synthese. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-019-02115-x.

Ramstead, M. J., Kirchhoff, M. D., & Friston, K. J. (2020). A tale of two densities: Active inference is enactive inference. Adaptive Behavior, 28(4), 225-239.

Ramstead, M.J.D., Veissière, S. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2016). Cultural affordances, shared intentionality, and regimes of attention. Frontiers in Psychology: Cognitive Science, 7, Article 1090, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01090.

Robillard, R., Saad, M., Edwards, J., Solomonova, E., Pennestri, M. H., Daros, A., Veissière, S. P.... & Kendzerska, T. (2020). Social, financial and psychological stress during an emerging pandemic: observations from a population survey in the acute phase of COVID-19. BMJ Open, 10(12), e043805.

Sapkota, R. P., Brunet, A., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2020). Characteristics of Adolescents Affected by Mass Psychogenic Illness Outbreaks in Schools in Nepal: A Case-Control Study. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 1271.

Sayanvala, F., Bornstein, L., Choudhury, S., Shah, J., Weinstock, D., & Gold, I. (2020). Cities, Psychosis, and Social Defeat. In L. J. Kirmayer, C. M. Worthman, S. Kitayama, R. Lemelson, and C. A. Cummings, Culture, mind, and brain: Emerging concepts, methods, applications, chapter 20. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Seligman, R., Choudhury, S. & Kirmayer, L.J. (2016). Locating culture in the brain and in the world: From social categories to the ecology of mind. In: J. Chiao, Li, S-C., Seligman, R. & Turner, R. (Eds.) Handbook of Cultural Neuroscience (pp. 3-20), New York: Oxford University Press.

Stendel, M., Ramstead, M. J. D., & Veissière, S. (In press). Internet sociality: cultural experience in a wired world. In Kirmayer, L. J. (Ed.), Culture, Mind, and Brain. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Vasil, J., Badcock, P. B., Constant, A., Friston, K., & Ramstead, M. J. (2020). A world unto itself: Human communication as active inference. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 417.

Veissière, S. (2019). Neuroplacebos: When healing is a no-brainer. In Raz, A., & Thibault, R. Casting Light on the Dark Side of Brain Imaging (pp. 93-98). Academic Press.

Veissière, S. P. L., Constant, A., Ramstead, M. J. D., Friston, K., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2020). Thinking through other minds: A variational approach to cognition and culture. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, 1-75. doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X19001213

Veissière, S., Constant, A., Ramstead, M. J., Friston, K. J., & Kirmayer, L. J. (2020). TTOM in Action: Refining the Variational Approach to Cognition and Culture. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, x-xx.

West, G.L. & Bohbot, V. (2020). Experience dependent plasticity in the hippocampus. In L. J. Kirmayer, C. M. Worthman, S. Kitayama, R. Lemelson, and C. A. Cummings, Culture, mind, and brain: Emerging concepts, methods, applications, (Chapter 13). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

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