Conference on Childhood, Culture, and Neurodevelopment

儿童、文化和神经发育会议

• 批准号: 7068079
• 负责人: MARK G BARAD
• 金额: $ 0.9万
• 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/7068079
• 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历对以后发展的重要性。然而，现有的许多关于早期生命如何塑造发展的研究都是建立在单一理论、非整合视角的研究基础上的。例如，通常，使用动物模型的神经生物学家只关注离散压力源对生物体随后的生理变化和发育的影响，而不考虑实验室之外也可能影响生理学的一些丰富多样的背景因素。同样，人类学家关注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都未能考虑到彼此相互作用并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的因素。我们提议召开一次会议，旨在通过研究生命最初几年的早期经历如何有助于恢复力和心理健康或对精神疾病（如焦虑、抑郁和压力相关疾病）的脆弱性，来填补这一空白。特别是，我们将从神经生物学和跨文化相结合的角度来研究规范的儿童发展，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。此次会议将汇集来自人类学、神经生物学、认知神经科学、心理学和精神病学领域的多学科研究人员和学者团队。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不同学者参与进来，共同探讨文化背景和大脑发育如何相互作用并影响早期生活经历和发展。