{"id":110,"date":"2010-04-12T15:18:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T19:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/?page_id=110"},"modified":"2010-04-12T15:18:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T19:18:50","slug":"neuroscience-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/research\/neuroscience-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscience Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Institute are  working on a proposal for a collaborative study with neuroscientists to  develop a new synthetic approach to the study of the human mind.<\/p>\n<p><span>The purpose of the  project is to explore the influence of culture \u2013 in particular, the  anomic modern culture \u2013 on normal cognitive (including neurocognitive)  and emotional processes and on mental disorders, such as depression,  bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, eating disorders, and suicidal  behavior, as well as to explore the possibility of devising a new  approach to treatment, <em>symbolic psychiatry<\/em>, based on the  understanding of such cultural influence. The exploration presupposes  the creation of a transdisciplinary framework allowing for the  investigation of insights into the workings of the human mind, arrived  at in comparative sociological, anthropological, and socio-historical  studies of culture, by the methods of experimental neuroscience, and the  formulation of a long-term research agenda in specifically human  neuroscience, namely one focusing on mental processes unique to the  human beings, and therefore by definition influenced by culture, such as  identity-formation, symbolic imagination, and thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Institute are working on a proposal for a collaborative study with neuroscientists to develop a new synthetic approach to the study of the human mind. The purpose of the project is to explore the influence of culture \u2013 in particular, the anomic modern culture \u2013 on normal cognitive (including neurocognitive) and emotional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3039,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/110\/revisions\/111"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/iass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}