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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.

Dizziness and panic in China: associated sensations of zang fu organ disequilibrium.
Authors: Authors: Park L, Hinton D.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Panic disorder, somatization, and the new cross-cultural psychiatry: the seven bodies of a medical anthropology of panic.
Authors: Authors: Hinton D, Hinton S.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Toxicity of stormwater runoff after dormant spray application of diazinon and esfenvalerate (Asana) in a French prune orchard, Glenn county, California, USA.
Authors: Authors: Werner I, Deanovic LA, Hinton DE, Henderson JD, de Oliveira GH, Wilson BW, Krueger W, Wallender WW, Oliver MN, Zalom FG.
Bull Environ Contam Toxicol
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Kyol Goeu ('Wind Overload') Part I: A Cultural Syndrome of Orthostatic Panic among Khmer Refugees.
Authors: Authors: Hinton D, Um K, Ba P.
Transcult Psychiatry
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Kyol Goeu ('Wind Overload') Part II: Prevalence, Characteristics, and Mechanisms of Kyol Goeu and Near-Kyol Goeu Episodes of Khmer Patients Attending a Psychiatric Clinic.
Authors: Authors: Hinton D, Um K, Ba P.
Transcult Psychiatry
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A unique panic-disorder presentation among Khmer refugees: the sore-neck syndrome.
Authors: Authors: Hinton D, Um K, Ba P.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Increasing uptake and bioactivation with development positively modulate diazinon toxicity in early life stage medaka (Oryzias latipes).
Authors: Authors: Hamm JT, Wilson BW, Hinton DE.
Toxicol Sci
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Identification, characterization, and ontogeny of a second cytochrome P450 3A gene from the fresh water teleost medaka (Oryzias latipes).
Authors: Authors: Kullman SW, Hinton DE.
Mol Reprod Dev
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Panic disorder among Vietnamese refugees attending a psychiatric clinic: prevalence and subtypes.
Authors: Authors: Hinton D, Chau H, Nguyen L, Nguyen M, Pham T, Quinn S, Tran M.
Gen Hosp Psychiatry
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Toxicity of methyl-tert-butyl ether to freshwater organisms.
Authors: Authors: Werner I, Koger CS, Deanovic LA, Hinton DE.
Environ Pollut
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