Cultural neuropsychiatry

Cultural Neuropsychiatry describes any research studying brain and genetic processes, psychiatry, and sociocultural constructs like cultural background, ethnicity, and gender. Some research also studies immigration. It is is a new field of research that combines principles from Cultural Neuroscience and Transcultural Psychiatry. While Cultural Neuroscience shows differences in neural activity and connectivity as well as genetic traits across cultures, Transcultural Psychiatry shows that disorders vary sometimes even radically across cultures. Cultural Neuropsychiatry aims to merge these two areas of research to understand fundamental differences and similarities in disorders across cultures as well as biologically characterize culture-bound syndromes and study effects of stress related to migration and refuge on biology and mental health. The Culture-Brain-Behavior Interaction Model (CBB Model) describes has been proposed as the primary model describing the relationship between brain, culture, and mental health.