Culturing the adolescent brain: What can neuroscience learn from anthropology?

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 159-167

  Choudhury, Suparna ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Anthropology; Brain development; Context; Culture; Neuroscience

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; BRAIN; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCES;

EID: 77954462354     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsp030     Document Type: Article

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