Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Suparna Choudhury

Research Scholar

Ph.D.

Funded by the Minerva Program of the Max Planck Society

Residence: September 1, 2008 - August 31, 2014


Profile


Suparna Choudhury is currently investigating the development of naturalized conceptions of adolescence through cognitive neuroscience as part of the Cerebral Subject project, which traces the historical development, topography and functioning of ‘brainhood’ in contemporary culture (http://www.brainhood.net). This follows from her postdoctoral research on cultural constructions of the brain at the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University and her PhD in Neuroscience on social cognitive development during adolescence at University College London. She is also developing an interdisciplinary project on Critical Neuroscience, which aims to open up new experimental and interpretive possibilities by connecting social and historical studies of neuroscience to experimental neuroscience, itself (http://www.critical-neuroscience.org).

Selected publications

Choudhury, S., Nagel, S.K., Slaby, J. . "Critical Neuroscience: Linking neuroscience and society through critical practice. . " BioSocieties 4 (1 2009)

Choudhury, S. . "Culturing the adolescent brain. What can neuroscience learn from anthropology? , . " Social Cognitive Affective Neuroscience (doi: 10.1093/scan/nsp030. 2010)

Choudhury, S & Kirmayer, L.. "Cultural neuroscience and psychopathology: prospects for cultural psychiatry. . " Progress in Brain Research (178  2010)

Choudhury, S., Gold, I. & Kirmayer, L. . "From brain image to the Bush doctrine: critical neuroscience and the political uses of neurotechnology. . " American Journal of Bioethics: Neuroscience 1 (2 2010)

Ebensperger, L. Choudhury, S., Slaby, J. "Designing the lifeworld: Selfhood as an architectural project. . " Cognitive Architecture. From bio-politics to noo-politics. politics (ed. Hauptmann, D., Neidich, W. & Mustapha, A.K.) (2011)

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Talks and presentations

April 2011
The neurological adolescent in the digital age – Advanced Summer Institute, Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University
December 2010
Critical neuroscience: the case of adolescence – Mind the Brain conference, Lausanne, Switzerland
August 2010
“Wired up differently” – presentation for panel discussion on Neurological Identities - 4S Conference, Tokyo
June 2007
Social cognitive development during adolescence - Lifespan Institute Social Cognition Think Tank, California
July 2007
Towards a 'critical neuroscience' - Why Bioethics? workshop, University of Cambridge, UK

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Teaching activities

2010-current
Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada - Adjunct Faculty
2008-2010
Critical Neuroscience - Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabruck, Germany