PUBLISHED:Â Traces of culture: The feedback loop between behavior, brain, and disorder
PREPRINT:Â https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/56g2m/

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PUBLISHED:Â Traces of culture: The feedback loop between behavior, brain, and disorder
PREPRINT:Â https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/56g2m/

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Paper SUBMITTED!Â
Crafa, D., Schiff, J., & Brodeur, M.B. (In review). Social interaction and self identity: an adapted paradigm for measuring social fluidity. PREPRINT:Â https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/arjp7/Â
Andreas Roepstorff and CrafaLab applied for an Infrastructure Grant to purchase multiple fNIRS devices. It was recently awarded. We are creating the first adult fNIRS laboratory in Denmark, in collaboration with numberous international scientists:
Projects to be launched:
Marc Malmdorff Andersen (IMC, Post-Doctoral Fellow)Â
Sheina Lew-Levy (AU & Simon Frazier Anthropology, Post-Doctoral Fellow)
Micah Allen (AU AIAS, Associate Professor)Â
Line Gebauer (AU CFIN, Associate Professor) & Rasmine Louise Holm Mogensen (AU CFIN, PhD Student)Â
Merete Nordentoft (University of Copenhagen, Professor) & Peter Bang (PhD Student)Â
Ivana Konvalinka (DTU, Assistant Professor)Â
Marieke Vugt (University of Groenigen, Assistant Professor)Â
Joe Dumit (UC Davis, Professor and Chair)Â
Alain Brunet (Associate Professor, McGill University) & Ram Sapkota (Post Doc)Â
Paulo Boggio (Associate Professor, Mackenzie University)Â
Leonhard Schilbach (Professor, Max Planck Institute) & Dimitris Bolis (Post Doc)Â
Marco Iacoboni (Professor, UCLA)Â
Shaping Each Other
Awarded Duke’s 2020 SSNAP Fellowship
Drs. Daina Crafa and Anna Ciaunica have been jointly awarded Duke University’s 2020 SSNAP Fellowship. This fellowship provides neuroscientist-philosopher pairs with travel, lodging, and an honorarium to pursue cross-disciplinary investigations, as well as opportunities to receive additional research funding.Â
The acceptance email was received this morning:
The closing conference will be open to the public - hoping you can join us!

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Posting this a little late, but I’m thrilled to have joined the stimulating, innovative environment of the IMC as a tenure-track (equivalent) Assistant Professor! I couldn’t be happier! http://interactingminds.au.dk/news/enkelt/artikel/daina-crafa-assistant-professor/
This weekend I was honored to have the #1 poster at the SAS conference, and to be invited to give a special spotlight presentation on my work. This was in addition to the 3 presentations I was already giving. I am both flattered and humbled by the recognition and will continue to work hard to produce rigorous neuroscience. đź§
How does context influence perception?
Context sometimes makes the world more understandable, but not always. Which brain regions are active when visual scenes help to interpret the world? And what happens in the brain when the visual scene doesn’t help? My recent study attempts to answer these questions.
Open access:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5735118/
Autism and Migration
Check out my latest book chapter summarizing the state of the science in autism rates and development in sojourners and their offspring.Â
Open access:
https://www.intechopen.com/books/autism-paradigms-recent-research-and-clinical-applications/migration-and-autism-diagnosis
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Mental Health Resources for Newcomers to Canada
Moving to a new country is hard, and sometimes it’s nice to have help transitioning into your new life. Canada offers many mental health services that can be beneficial for newcomers who don’t want to discuss their situations with family and friends, or believe they need a little extra help.Â
Did you know that it is common to experience some difficulty after migrating to a new country? Anxiety and depression are common. Especially for refugees who have experienced war or violence before arriving in Canada. Listen to this interview for more information.
Talking to a clinician can be very helpful for managing these feelings. Canadians believe that treating mental health is beneficial and healthy. You can find interesting facts about mental health of Canadians on the CMHA website.
These services are confidential so that you are protected when you share personal information. For adults, not even your family can know if you are seeing a mental health care professional or what you talk about when you are there. More information about this can be found in our brochure.
Cultural Consultation Services: An Additional Resource for Newcomers
Canada is a very diverse country and many clinicians are used to working with diverse clients. However, sometimes clients doubt their clinicians or believe their clinicians do not understand their perspective. This can happen especially if you are used to a different social and cultural environment than your clinician. In these cases, it may be useful to ask them for a referral to a Cultural Consultation Service.Â
Cultural Consultation Services are offered by several clinics across Canada. They provide an extra assessment for clients who are from different countries, to help their clinicians better understand their culture and their individual beliefs. You can contact the CCS staff to find out how to access this type of service in your area. This website is not directly affiliated with CCS.
There are many reasons why it can be useful to involve CCS. For example, symptoms of certain difficulties can vary depending on which country you’re from. For example, people who hear voices usually report more negative experiences if they are from Canada than if they are from India. Understanding differences like this can change how you and your clinician understands your experience.Â
Additionally, certain problems are observed in higher rates in people who have migrated, such as autism in children, and it can be useful to talk to a professional to help with adjustment. However, sometimes these disorders are misdiagnosed in migrants because the clinician is not aware of certain cultural differences. For example, children who are taught to make less eye contact with adults may be at greater risk for misdiagnosis of autism, because reduced eye contact is one symptom clinicians look for when diagnosing autism.Â
In these circumstances, you may want to involve CCS to ensure the clinician is providing the best treatment for you. CCS know how to ask questions in order to better understand your experiences, and to advise your clinician. They essentially act as translators for your perspective and life experiences, and provide an additional resource to ensure you are happy with your mental health care.
Congrats to my collaborator Dr. Martin Lepage! His very important work is being recognized!
Story featured in the June 2016 #27 edition of The MWI IUHSSC Evolving newsletter.
INTERVIEW: A supportive environment can improve refugees’ mental health
I was asked to give an interview for the Canadian Institutes for Mental Health podcast “Action in Health Research.” The discussion is on immigration and mental health, which is a topic that I am currently studying through the Neuroscience (IPN) program at McGill University.
You can listen to it here:Â http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/49602.html
The topic of immigration and mental health resonates with me on a very personal level. I am Italian-American, the descendant of immigrants, and have myself lived in multiple countries. It was an honor to have the opportunity to discuss some of the challenges that many immigrants face after moving to a new country, especially as many countries face an influx of Syrian refugees.Â
Hopefully this podcast is informative to some and welcoming to all.
Many thanks to David Coulombe and his team for their invitation and support and to Mark Hengge for his photo talents.Â
PUBLISHED:Â Maternal Migration and Autism Risk
by Daina Crafa & Nasir Warfa
Ethnicity and migration experiences appear to increase risks of AUT and relate to underlying biological risk factors. Sociobiological stress factors can affect the uterine environment, or relate to stress-induced epigenetic changes during pregnancy and delivery. Epigenetic risk factors associated with AUT also include poor pregnancy conditions, low birth weight, and congenital malformation. Recent studies report that children from migrant communities are at higher risk of AUT than children born to non-migrant mothers, with the exception of Hispanic children. This paper provides the first systematic review into prevalence and predictors of AUT with a particular focus on maternal migration stressors and epigenetic risk factors. AUT rates appear higher in certain migrant communities, potentially relating to epigenetic changes after stressful experiences. Although AUT remains a rare disorder, failures to recognize its public health urgency and local community needs continue to leave certain cultural groups at a disadvantage.
Crafa, D., & Warfa, N. (2015). Maternal ethnicity and prenatal migration co-contribute to autism risk: A systematic review. Special Issue in Transcultural Mental Health: International Review of Psychiatry, 27, 64-71.
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CRAFALAB NEWS: 2014 Vanier Winner
I've won an award for "World's Most Promising Young Researchers" - the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship!!!
These prestigious awards will support world-class doctoral students and post-doctoral fellows carrying out leading-edge research in the health sciences, natural sciences and engineering, and social sciences and humanities at universities in Canada or Canadians carrying out research at institutions around the world. Source
This is a great honor! A huge thank you to everyone who has supported and encouraged my work!
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'Hearing Voices' Differs Across Cultures: Can Differences Be Seen in the Brain Too?
A recent research article reports that culture influences the valence of auditory hallucinations observed in schizophrenia. This finding has implications for cultural neuropsychiatry. To find out more, check out my latest post for Society of Medical Anthropology Mental Health Interest Group! http://www.medanthro.net/AMHIG/current-article/
Dr. Laurence Kirmayer gave a great lecture explaining the problems with neuroscience in psychiatry and the special role social neuroscience can play.