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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.

Cultural Explanations of Sleep Paralysis in Italy: The Pandafeche Attack and Associated Supernatural Beliefs.
Authors: Authors: Jalal B, Romanelli A, Hinton DE.
Cult Med Psychiatry
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"Thinking too much": A systematic review of a common idiom of distress.
Authors: Authors: Kaiser BN, Haroz EE, Kohrt BA, Bolton PA, Bass JK, Hinton DE.
Soc Sci Med
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Sleep Paralysis Among Egyptian College Students: Association With Anxiety Symptoms (PTSD, Trait Anxiety, Pathological Worry).
Authors: Authors: Jalal B, Hinton DE.
J Nerv Ment Dis
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The "Thinking a Lot" Idiom of Distress and PTSD: An Examination of Their Relationship among Traumatized Cambodian Refugees Using the "Thinking a Lot" Questionnaire.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Reis R, de Jong J.
Med Anthropol Q
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Bioaccumulation and speciation of selenium in fish and insects collected from a mountaintop removal coal mining-impacted stream in West Virginia.
Authors: Authors: Arnold MC, Lindberg TT, Liu YT, Porter KA, Hsu-Kim H, Hinton DE, Di Giulio RT.
Ecotoxicology
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Cross-cultural aspects of anxiety disorders.
Authors: Authors: Hofmann SG, Hinton DE.
Curr Psychiatry Rep
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Social anxiety disorder in DSM-5.
Authors: Authors: Heimberg RG, Hofmann SG, Liebowitz MR, Schneier FR, Smits JA, Stein MB, Hinton DE, Craske MG.
Depress Anxiety
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Cultural concepts of distress and psychiatric disorders: literature review and research recommendations for global mental health epidemiology.
Authors: Authors: Kohrt BA, Rasmussen A, Kaiser BN, Haroz EE, Maharjan SM, Mutamba BB, de Jong JT, Hinton DE.
Int J Epidemiol
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Explanations of sleep paralysis among Egyptian college students and the general population in Egypt and Denmark.
Authors: Authors: Jalal B, Simons-Rudolph J, Jalal B, Hinton DE.
Transcult Psychiatry
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Immunohistochemical characterization of the hepatic progenitor cell compartment in medaka (Oryzias latipes) following hepatic injury.
Authors: Authors: Van Wettere AJ, Kullman SW, Hinton DE, Law JM.
J Comp Pathol
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