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Devon Emerson Hinton, M.D.

Devon E. Hinton, M.D, Ph.D., is an anthropologist and psychiatrist, and an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine.

He and his team have developed a manualized treatment that can be culturally adapted for the treatment of traumatized refugees, a treatment that has been shown to be effective for multiple groups including Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees and Spanish-speaking populations.

He is fluent in several languages including Cambodian and Spanish. He was a member of the DSM-V Cultural Study Group and an advisor to the Anxiety, OC, Posttraumatic, and Dissociative Disorders Work Group of DSM–V (American Psychiatric Association). He is the author of over a 130 articles and over 30 chapters, and is the co-editor of four volumes: Culture and Panic Disorder (Stanford University Press), 2009; Genocide and Mass Violence: Memory, Symptom, and Recovery (Cambridge University Press), 2015; Culture and PTSD: Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective (University of Penn Press), 2016; and The DSM-5 Handbook on the Cultural Formulation (American Psychiatric Press). 2016.

Affliate:

Program in Global Mental Health and Social Change

 Dr. Devon Hinton has researched culturally specific presentations of somatic symptoms, panic attacks, panic disorder, and PTSD among Southeast Asian populations, particularly Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees, and among Latino populations.

Stage-specific toxicity of cypermethrin to medaka (Oryzias latipes) eggs and embryos using a refined methodology for an in vitro fertilization bioassay.
Authors: Authors: González-Doncel M, Fernández-Torija C, Hinton DE, Tarazona JV.
Arch Environ Contam Toxicol
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CBT for Vietnamese refugees with treatment-resistant PTSD and panic attacks: a pilot study.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Pham T, Tran M, Safren SA, Otto MW, Pollack MH.
J Trauma Stress
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Olfactory-triggered panic attacks among Khmer refugees: a contextual approach.
Authors: Authors: Hinton D, Pich V, Chhean D, Pollack M.
Transcult Psychiatry
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Olfactory-triggered panic attacks among Cambodian refugees attending a psychiatric clinic.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Pich V, Chhean D, Pollack MH, Barlow DH.
Gen Hosp Psychiatry
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Treatment of pharmacotherapy-refractory posttraumatic stress disorder among Cambodian refugees: a pilot study of combination treatment with cognitive-behavior therapy vs sertraline alone.
Authors: Authors: Otto MW, Hinton D, Korbly NB, Chea A, Ba P, Gershuny BS, Pollack MH.
Behav Res Ther
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'Hit by the wind' and temperature-shift panic among Vietnamese refugees.
Authors: Authors: Hinton D, Hinton S, Pham T, Chau H, Tran M.
Transcult Psychiatry
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Anger-associated panic attacks in Cambodian refugees with PTSD; a multiple baseline examination of clinical data.
Authors: Authors: Hinton D, Hsia C, Um K, Otto MW.
Behav Res Ther
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Somatic panic-attack equivalents in a community sample of Rwandan widows who survived the 1994 genocide.
Authors: Authors: Hagengimana A, Hinton D, Bird B, Pollack M, Pitman RK.
Psychiatry Res
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The Khmer 'Weak Heart' Syndrome: Fear of Death from Palpitations.
Authors: Authors: Hinton D, Hinton S, Um K, Chea A, Sak S.
Transcult Psychiatry
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Panic probes and the identification of panic: a historical and cross-cultural perspective.
Authors: Authors: Hinton D, Nathan M, Bird B, Park L.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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