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is experienced by brains in the wild. It is neuroanthropological and biologically embedded, which is to say that experiences get under the skin to alter human biological processes.

This approach calls for applying a critical eye to strictly brain-based explanations that ignore both environmental influence and biochemical individuality. And it opens up the possibility that anthropologist may be incorporating neuroimaging technology into their working tool kit. While the neuroanthropology movement has been mostly a product of the anthropology side thus far, Lende said. But increasingly, cognitive scientist are joining in .. . . 'As neuroanthropologist, we're not trying to solve problems in the lab or in the clinic, but rather to take the results of that sort of work, and look at what's happening to those brains in the wild,' Lende said . . . Lende believes that anthropology needs to pursue the impact of 'biological embedding, or how experiences get under the skin' to alter human biological and developmental processes. 'You can have differential vulnerabilities to biological embedding, coupled with differential environmental vulnerability.' . . . Dr. Lende points to the well documented clinical finding that exercise enhances neuroplasticity. 'And exercising has been shown in various labs to reduce craving,' he said. 'What's important from my community-based orientation is, what sort of interventions or strategies can we have that are low cost and be used in non-professional settings. Can we motivate people to do it' What are the barriers''.

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