Black, D. S., Milam, J., & Sussman, S. (2009). Pediatrics. 124(3), e532-e541.
This article reviewed empirical studies on the effects of sitting- meditative practices in
school, clinic, and community settings for youth ages 6 to 18 years. The review was motivated
by a growing body of research that documents positive health and cognitive outcomes among
adults. The purpose of [...]
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Psychoneuroendocrinology, 34, 87-98; Pace, T. W. W., Negi, L. T., Adame, D. D., Cole, S. P., Sivilli, T. I., Brown, T. D., Issa, M. J., & Raison, C.L. (2009).
Meditation practices may impact physiological pathways that are modulated by stress and relevant to disease. While much attention has been paid to meditation practices [...]
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In the fall of 2005, the Dalai Lama gave the inaugural Dialogues between Neuroscience and Society lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, DC. There were over 30,000 neuroscientists registered for the meeting, and it seemed as if most of them attended the talk. The Dalai [...]
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Posted in Compassion on Apr 12th, 2010
The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University has announced a conference on the Language of Mental Life scheduled for July 7-9, 2010 during which western scientists will meet with Buddhist scholars to create a lexicon for better understanding the key terms of mental life.
In the [...]
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010; Munzer Auditorium, Stanford University
Together with Alan Wallace and three-dozen collaborating researchers, we are investigating how attentional, emotional and physiological processes change over the course of three months of intensive training in meditative quiescence and emotional balance, in a study known as “The Shamatha Project.” Scientific measures include [...]
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Posted in Compassion on Apr 12th, 2010
Shambhala Sun | May 2010
In 1961, following the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann
in Jerusalem, Yale social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a
study to find out how much pain test subjects would be willing to inflict on other
people at the behest of an authority figure. He was trying to ascertain whether people
could perform acts [...]
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Science 24 April 2009:
Vol. 324. no. 5926, pp. 458 - 459
Back in 2000, James Doty was living the high life. He drove a Ferrari to work and was in the process of buying a private island in New Zealand, a villa in Tuscany, and a penthouse apartment in San Francisco. A neurosurgeon [...]
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A new Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education has been launched at the School of Medicine, with the aim of doing scientific research on the neural underpinnings of these thoughts and feelings.
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, provided $150,000 in seed money for the center—the largest [...]
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AACN Advanced Critical Care
Volume 20, Number 1, pp.108–111
Cynda Hylton Rushton, RN, PhD, FAAN
Do you ever notice how difficult it becomes when you are embroiled in an
ethical conflict to stop long enough to reflect on your own motivations,
much less the motivations of others? Or how easily we begin to create our own
story about the situation, often [...]
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Palliative and Supportive Care (2009), 7, 405–414.
CYNDA HYLTON RUSHTON, PH.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., DEBORAH E. SELLERS, PH.D.,
KAREN S. HELLER, PH.D., BEVERLY SPRING, B.A., M.D.,
BARBARA M. DOSSEY, PH.D., R.N., F.A.A.N.,
AND JOAN HALIFAX, PH.D.
ABSTRACT
Objective: Health care professionals report a lack of skills in the psychosocial and spiritual
aspects of caring for dying people and high levels of moral distress, [...]
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