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Devon Emerson Hinton, MD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Department of Global Health and Social Medicine Affiliate

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.

Prevalence and Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress and Depression Symptoms Among Syrian Refugees in a Refugee Camp.
Authors: Authors: Acarturk C, Cetinkaya M, Senay I, Gulen B, Aker T, Hinton D.
J Nerv Ment Dis
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Cultural Adaptations of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Patel A.
Psychiatr Clin North Am
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Adenosine A2A receptor and ERK-driven impulsivity potentiates hippocampal neuroblast proliferation.
Authors: Authors: Oliveros A, Cho CH, Cui A, Choi S, Lindberg D, Hinton D, Jang MH, Choi DS.
Transl Psychiatry
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The Flexibility Hypothesis of Healing.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Kirmayer LJ.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Transdiagnostic culturally adapted CBT with Farsi-speaking refugees: a pilot study.
Authors: Authors: Kananian S, Ayoughi S, Farugie A, Hinton D, Stangier U.
Eur J Psychotraumatol
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A Transcultural Model of the Centrality of "Thinking a Lot" in Psychopathologies Across the Globe and the Process of Localization: A Cambodian Refugee Example.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Barlow DH, Reis R, de Jong J.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Platzschwindel, agoraphobia and their influence on theories of anxiety at the end of the nineteenth century: theories of the role of biology and 'representations' (Vorstellungen).
Authors: Authors: Ghazal YA, Hinton DE.
Hist Psychiatry
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"Thinking a Lot" Among the Khwe of South Africa: A Key Idiom of Personal and Interpersonal Distress.
Authors: Authors: den Hertog TN, de Jong M, van der Ham AJ, Hinton D, Reis R.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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Lifetime presence and rates of sleep paralysis in Denmark of ethnic Danes and non-ethnic Danes.
Authors: Authors: Jalal B, Hinton DE.
Psychiatry Clin Neurosci
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Somatic Symptoms Mediate the Relationship Between Trauma During the Arab Spring and Quality of Life Among Tunisians.
Authors: Authors: Hiar S, Thomas CL, Hinton DE, Salles J, Goutaudier N, Olliac B, Bui E.
J Nerv Ment Dis
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