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Critical Neuroscience Workshop

 

Critical Neuroscience #1 Critical Neuroscience and the Cultural Brain: An Outlook | Suparna Choudhury and Jan Slaby

How do we make sense of what is going on in the field of neuroscience? How can we make sense of the many discourses about neuroscience?

Critical Neuroscience #2 An overview | Laurence Kirmayer

Dr. Laurence Kirmayer gives an overview on the field of Critical Neuroscience, covering varieties of critical neuroscience, cultural constructions of the brain, the social brain, cultural neuroscience and neurodiversity.

Critical Neuroscience #3.1 Philosophy of Mind and Neuroscience | Ian Gold

Ian Gold discusses the history of the mind as a concept, covering Cartesian mind/body dualism, cognitive scaffolding, the embodied and embedded mind, and situated cognition. What is the mind? Where is the mind located? Where does cognition take place? Part of the Summer Programme in Social and Cultural Psychiatry from the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University.

Critical Neuroscience #3.2 Philosophy of Mind and Neuroscience | Ian Gold

Ian Gold continues his talk on the philosophy of the mind, covering reductionism of the mind sciences, psychology and psychiatry to neuroscience. Part of the Summer Programme in Social and Cultural Psychiatry from the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University.

Critical Neuroscience #4 Resting State | The Question of Baseline 

Daniel Margulies, PhD talks us through the history of the concept of baseline in cognitive neuroscience and the future directions of this field of neuroscience. Part of the Summer Programme in Social and Cultural Psychiatry.

Critical Neuroscience #5 Neuroimaging | Amir Raz

Dr. Amir Raz gives an overview on the different types of neuroimaging methods: NMR, MRI, fMRI, ERP, EEG, PET, Cyclotrone, TMS and CT. Part of the Summer Programme in Social and Cultural Psychiatry from the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University.

Critical Neuroscience #6 Brain Images and Neurosubjectivities | Suparna Choudhury and Jan Slaby

Dr. Suparna Choudhury and Dr. Jan Slaby talk about objective self-fashioning, how neuroscience is impacting selfhood. Is our brain our sense of identity? Does framing ourselves in terms of the brain (ie using "endorphin challenged" instead of "alcoholic") take away responsibility for ourselves? How plastic is our brain? Do we have a neurosignature? What affect does looking at the brain have on how we understand ourselves and our actions? Part of the Summer Programme in Social and Cultural Psychiatry from the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University.

Critical Neuroscience #7 Culture and Psychosis | Ian Gold

Dr. Ian Gold talks about the role of culture in psychosis. The popularity of the film The Truman Show has led a people who believe that they are part of a secret television show. Gold discusses social/environmental factors that have been shown to lead to schizophrenia, such as living in a large urban centres. What happens when we consider the large online community that we increasingly spend more time in? Part of the Summer Programme in Social and Cultural Psychiatry from the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University.

Critical Neuroscience #8 Neurophenomenology in Psychiatry | Laurence Kirmayer

Dr. Laurence Kirmayer speaks on phenomenology and the ways in which it has mutated in a North American context. How are people framing the nature of their mental illness? How can we think of embodied experience (such as sleep paralysis) through metaphor as a bridge between neurology and a cultural point of view? Part of the Summer Programme in Social and Cultural Psychiatry from the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University.

 

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