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... The materialization of the mind and the rise of a plastic, social conception of the brain have rendered neuroscience relevant to understanding the self and society. This chapter situates brain knowledge in the context of a materialist turn in social thought. It argues that the social, plastic...

...”—the complexly mediated capacity to embody certain socially salient traits and “differences.” Audre Lorde social neuroscience oxytocin neuroplasticity neurofeminism ...

... is possible. Using the examples of Peter Fonagy’s comments on psychoanalysis and mind, serotonin syndrome, and a model of social neuroscience, this chapter is interested in how antidepressant politics might change if we recognize that it is not possible to firmly distinguish between the poisonous character...

... of social neuroscience, this chapter is interested in how antidepressant politics might change if we recognize that it is not possible to firmly distinguish between the poisonous character of the pharmakon and its ability to heal. SSRI antidepressants adverse effects FDA suicidal ideation...

... of neuroscience are not sufficient to grasp the stakes of the biosocial, plastic brain. Rather, the entanglement of social structures and neurobiological bodies must be addressed as an onto-epistemological problem, a real and corporeal one. The book concludes by arguing for the complexity and specificity...

... This chapter is based on ethnographic fieldwork in a neuroscience laboratory on whose research reports of the discovery of a monogamy gene were based. This chapter demonstrates how assumptions about human monogamy are naturalized and shape the notions of the normal (sexual/social/pair-bonded...

... shaping prenatal testing. At pediatric neuroscience labs engaged in brain research with children diagnosed as atypical, scientists hoped to locate biomarkers that might lead to therapies. Both are governed by scientific ideas of human improvement and perfectibility. The authors also worked...

... Social neuroscientists address kinship through biologically rooted, affective feelings of attachment, arguing that humans and other mammals experience sustained social bonds through the involvement of neural processes linked to affect and memory. They draw heavily from animal studies...

... and difference in the brain. It highlights the risks of essentializing social categories and fixing them in the developing brain—for example, in the brains of poor and minority children. The chapter argues that neuroscientific practices have an effect on (are part of) the phenomena they seek to measure, and thus...

... The neurosciences have given rise to a range of new programs for managing habits along pathways ranging from those of managed mindfulness to the cultivation of varied forms of “reflexive flexibility.” These form the context for the chapter's consideration of the politics of “gapped time...

... in which—as writings in feminism, queer, disability, and postcolonial scholarship attest—social differences can generate cognitive and affective dissonance. These critical literatures have openly wrestled with the problem of essentialism while insisting on the inadequacy of universalized epistemic claims...

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