Posted in Neuroscience on Aug 9th, 2009
from Psychosom Med. 2003 Jul-Aug;65(4):564-70
Davidson RJ, Kabat-Zinn J, Schumacher J, Rosenkranz M, Muller D, Santorelli SF, Urbanowski F, Harrington A, Bonus K, Sheridan JF.
Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA. rjdavids@facstaff.wisc.edu
OBJECTIVE: The underlying changes in biological processes that are associated with reported changes in mental and physical [...]
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Posted in Neuroscience on Aug 9th, 2009
from Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Nov 16;101(46):16369-73
Lutz A, Greischar LL, Rawlings NB, Ricard M, Davidson RJ.
W. M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, Waisman Center, and Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 1500 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705, USA. alutz@wisc.edu
Practitioners understand “meditation,” or mental [...]
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Posted in Neuroscience on Aug 9th, 2009
from Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 Jul 3;104(27):11483-8.
Brefczynski-Lewis JA, Lutz A, Schaefer HS, Levinson DB, Davidson RJ.
W.M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, Medical College of Wisconsin, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53226, USA.
Meditation refers to a family of mental training practices that are designed to familiarize the practitioner with [...]
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Posted in Neuroscience on Aug 9th, 2009
from Trends Cogn Sci. 2008 Apr;12(4):163-9
Lutz A, Slagter HA, Dunne JD, Davidson RJ.
Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53705, USA. alutz@wisc.edu <alutz@wisc.edu>
Meditation can be conceptualized as a family of complex emotional and attentional regulatory training regimes developed for various ends, including the cultivation of well-being and [...]
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Posted in Neuroscience on Aug 9th, 2009
from Psychophysiology. 2008 Jul;45(4):671-7
Khalsa SS, Rudrauf D, Damasio AR, Davidson RJ, Lutz A, Tranel D.
Neuroscience Graduate Program, Department of Neurology, University of Iowa, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. sahib-khalsa@uiowa.edu
Attention to internal body sensations is practiced in most meditation traditions. Many traditions state that this practice results in increased awareness of internal body [...]
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from Eat Disord. 2008 Jan-Feb;16(1):52-72
Proulx K.
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA. kproulx55@comcast.net
The experience of 6 college-age women with bulimia nervosa was examined after they participated in an 8-week mindfulness-based eating disorder treatment group. This phenomenological study used individual interview and pre- and post-treatment self-portraits. Participants described their experience of transformation from emotional and behavioral extremes, [...]
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Posted in Compassion, Neuroscience on Aug 9th, 2009
from PLoS One. 2008 Mar 26;3(3)
Regulation of the neural circuitry of emotion by compassion meditation: effects of meditative expertise.
Lutz A, Brefczynski-Lewis J, Johnstone T, Davidson RJ.
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America. alutz@wisc.edu
Recent brain imaging studies using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) have implicated insula and anterior cingulate cortices in the empathic response [...]
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from Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2009 Jan;34(1):87-98
Pace TW, Negi LT, Adame DD, Cole SP, Sivilli TI, Brown TD, Issa MJ, Raison CL.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Winship Cancer Institute, 1365C Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Meditation practices may impact physiological pathways that are modulated by stress and relevant to disease. While [...]
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Posted in Neuroscience on Aug 5th, 2009
from Am J Orthopsychiatry. 2006 Jan;76(1):134-7
Walsh R, Victor B, Bitner R.
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
Use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors continues to increase, as does concern about previously unrecognized, subtle side effects and questions about whether these drugs produce effects on healthy subjects. The authors [...]
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from Acta Oncol. 2009;48(1):18-26
Biegler KA, Chaoul MA, Cohen L.
Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77230-1439, USA. kabiegler@mdanderson.org
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Cancer-related cognitive impairment has been acknowledged as a substantial limiting factor in quality of life among cancer patients and survivors. In addition to deficits on behavioral measures, [...]
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