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