Posted in Neuroscience, Zen Tradition on Aug 11th, 2009
Jan 21, 2010 — Jan 24, 2010, Upaya Institute, NM
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Buddhist practice involves the cultivation of the realization of selflessness and interdependence and, as well, powerful insights into how we create the illusion of a separate and unchanging self. In recent years, philosophy, cognitive science, and neuroscience have contributed new and important perspectives on these core teachings of Buddhism. In [...]
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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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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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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 Eur J Appl Physiol. 2005 Sep;95(1):88-95
Cysarz D, Büssing A.
Chair of Medical Theory and Complementary Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, 58313, Herdecke, Germany. d.cysarz@rhythmen.de
The impact of meditation on cardiorespiratory synchronization with respect to breathing oscillations and the modulations of heart rate induced by respiration (respiratory sinus arrhythmia, RSA) was investigated in this study. Four different exercises [...]
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from Int J Cardiol. 2008 Nov 28;130(3):481-4.
Phongsuphap S, Pongsupap Y, Chandanamattha P, Lursinsap C.
This study aims at investigating changes in heart rate variability (HRV) measured during meditation. The statistical and spectral measures of HRV from the RR intervals were analyzed. Results indicate that meditation may have different effects on health depending on frequency of the [...]
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