Doctoral Dissertation Research: How do perceptions of neuroplasticity impact mental health care?

博士论文研究：对神经可塑性的看法如何影响心理保健？

基本信息

批准号：
2314721
负责人：
Scott Stonington
金额：
$ 2.52万
依托单位：
Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2023-07-01 至 2024-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2314721&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
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项目摘要

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of new mental health treatments. Physicians vary in the extent to which they adjust their practices to incorporate these novel treatments, with decisions based on a number of factors, including individual training, patient and physician characteristics, and how research evidence is interpreted. One interesting concept associated with uptake of novel mental health therapies is neuroplasticity: the brain’s ability to change in response to therapeutic interventions. This doctoral dissertation uses the concept of neuroplasticity to investigate how physicians’ explanatory frameworks impact and are impacted by the availability of novel mental health therapies. It contributes to science and technology studies, medical anthropology, and studies investigating how science and medicine are put into practice. It trains a graduate student in scientific cultural anthropology theory and methods, involves dissemination to academic, medical, and public audiences, and enhances undergraduate curricula. The investigators conduct long-term ethnographic research involving participant observation and interviews of care providers and patients, including shadowing researchers and participating in training sessions regarding the use of novel therapies. Specifically, the investigator queries how understandings of neuroplasticity shape the uptake and delivery of novel therapeutic agents and how patient and physician characteristics impact understandings of neuroplasticity and medical practice. This timely project informs important theoretical issues in cultural and medical anthropology that have translational significance for healthcare delivery.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

最近的几十年目睹了新的心理健康疗法的爆炸。医师在调整实践以纳入这些新型治疗方法的程度上以及基于许多因素（包括个人培训，患者和身体特征）以及如何解释研究证据的决定而有所不同。与新型心理健康疗法有关的一个有趣的概念是神经可塑性：大脑对治疗干预的反应能力。该博士学位论文使用神经塑性的概念来研究医师的爆炸性框架如何影响，并受到新颖的心理健康疗法的可用性的影响。它有助于科学和技术研究，医学人类学以及研究如何实践科学和医学的研究。它培训一名科学文化人类学理论和方法的研究生，涉及向学术，医学和公共观众传播，并增强了本科课程。研究人员进行了长期的民族志研究，涉及参与观察和护理提供者和患者的访谈，包括阴影研究人员以及参与有关使用新疗法的培训课程。具体而言，研究人员询问对神经可塑性的理解如何塑造新型治疗剂的摄取和传递以及患者和身体特征如何影响对神经可塑性和医学实践的理解。这个及时的项目为文化和医学人类学中的重要理论问题提供了对医疗保健交付具有翻译意义的重要理论问题。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估审查标准，被认为是珍贵的支持。