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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.

A model of the generation of ataque de nervios: the role of fear of negative affect and fear of arousal symptoms.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Lewis-Fernández R, Pollack MH.
CNS Neurosci Ther
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Panic disorder, panic attacks and panic attack symptoms across race-ethnic groups: results of the collaborative psychiatric epidemiology studies.
Authors: Authors: Asnaani A, Gutner CA, Hinton DE, Hofmann SG.
CNS Neurosci Ther
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Symptom dimensions in Chinese patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Authors: Authors: Li Y, Marques L, Hinton DE, Wang Y, Xiao ZP.
CNS Neurosci Ther
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Introduction to the special issue: anxiety disorders in cross-cultural perspective.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Pollack MH.
CNS Neurosci Ther
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Mechanisms of efficacy of CBT for Cambodian refugees with PTSD: improvement in emotion regulation and orthostatic blood pressure response.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Hofmann SG, Pollack MH, Otto MW.
CNS Neurosci Ther
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Reexamining the relationships among dementia, stigma, and aging in immigrant Chinese and Vietnamese family caregivers.
Authors: Authors: Liu D, Hinton L, Tran C, Hinton D, Barker JC.
J Cross Cult Gerontol
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The medical anthropology of sensations.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Howes D, Kirmayer LJ.
Transcult Psychiatry
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The 'multiplex model' of somatic symptoms: application to tinnitus among traumatized Cambodian refugees.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Hinton SD, Loeum RJ, Pich V, Pollack MH.
Transcult Psychiatry
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Toward a medical anthropology of sensations: definitions and research agenda.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Howes D, Kirmayer LJ.
Transcult Psychiatry
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Ataque de nervios: relationship to anxiety sensitivity and dissociation predisposition.
Authors: Authors: Hinton DE, Chong R, Pollack MH, Barlow DH, McNally RJ.
Depress Anxiety
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