FPR: Mission

Mission

Our mission is to support and advance interdisciplinary research projects and scholarship at the intersection of psychology, culture, neuroscience and psychiatry, with an emphasis on Psychocultural factors as central, not peripheral.

At the theoretical, conceptual level:

Increase the quantity and quality of research that integrates Psychocultural factors and neurosciences.

At the concrete, topical level:

Support programs and scholarly efforts that provide models of integrative cultural and neuroscientific research.

First 3-year topical focus:

The cultural, neurobiological, and mental health determinants and consequences of
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other anxiety disorders.

Second topical focus (2004-2006):

Trauma and the Interaction of Early Relational Experiences, Social Context, and Developmental Trajectories.

Current topical focus (2006-2009):

Culture, Brain, and Emotion.

Next topical focus (2009-2012):

Culture, Brain, and Mental Illness.

Examples of possible future research foci:

Neuralization of social experience.
Political, cultural and neurobiological effects of poverty.
Subjective experience and consciousness.
Cultural perspectives on neuropsychiatric disorders.
Neurotransmitter systems and their relation to culture, mental illness, deviancy and normality.

The FPR is a non-profit corporation (501(c)(3)).