Conference on Childhood, Culture, and Neurodevelopment

儿童、文化和神经发育会议

• 批准号: 6904658
• 负责人: MARK G BARAD
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-07-01 至 2009-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6904658
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; child psychology; children; culture; developmental neurobiology; disease /disorder proneness /risk; early experience; meeting /conference /symposium; psychopathology; social psychology; travel

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Animal and human studies have emphasized the primacy of early life experience on later development. However, much of the existing research on precisely how early life shapes development is founded on studies that rely on mono-theoretical, non-integrated perspectives. Typically, for example, neurobiologists using animal models focus exclusively on the effects of discrete stressors on the subsequent physiological changes and development of the organism, without considering some of the rich and varied contextual factors at play outside the laboratory that may also influence physiology. Likewise, anthropologists focus on culture and meanings with respect to the individual and social group, without considering their impact on neurobiological mechanisms that influence development. As a result, both the biological and social sciences may have, understandably, failed to consider multiple factors that both interact with each other and mutually influence human development, particularly those factors that happen to fall outside their respective disciplines. We propose a conference that seeks to fill this gap by examining how early experiences in the first several years of life contribute to resilience and mental well being or vulnerability to psychopathologies, such as anxiety, depression, and stress-related disorders. In particular, we will look at normative child development from combined neurobiological and cross-cultural perspectives, especially at how socially constructed contexts and normative environments impact physiological, social, and psychological development. The conference will bring together a multi-disciplinary team of researchers and scholars, representing the fields of anthropology, neurobiology, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry. Through presentations and roundtable discussions we want to involve a diverse audience of scholars interested in interactions between biology, psychology, and cultural anthropology that will collectively explore how cultural settings and brain development interact and affect early life experience and development.

描述（由申请人提供）：动物和人类研究强调了早期生活经验对后期发展的重要性。然而，现有的许多关于早期生活如何塑造发展的研究都是建立在依赖于单一理论，非综合视角的研究基础上的。例如，神经生物学家使用动物模型时，通常只关注离散的应激源对生物体后续生理变化和发育的影响，而不考虑实验室外可能影响生理的丰富多样的背景因素。同样，人类学家关注的是个人和社会群体的文化和意义，而不考虑它们对影响发展的神经生物学机制的影响。因此，可以理解的是，生物科学和社会科学可能都没有考虑到相互作用和相互影响人类发展的多种因素，特别是那些恰好不属于各自学科范围的因素。我们提出了一个会议，旨在填补这一空白，研究如何在生命的头几年的早期经验有助于恢复力和心理健康或脆弱性的精神病理学，如焦虑，抑郁和压力相关的疾病。特别是，我们将从神经生物学和跨文化的角度来看待儿童的规范发展，特别是社会构建的背景和规范环境如何影响生理，社会和心理发展。会议将汇集一个多学科的研究人员和学者团队，代表人类学，神经生物学，认知神经科学，心理学和精神病学领域。通过演讲和圆桌讨论，我们希望让对生物学，心理学和文化人类学之间的相互作用感兴趣的学者参与进来，这些学者将共同探索文化环境和大脑发育如何相互作用并影响早期生活经验和发展。