from JAMA, 2009 Sep 23;302(12):1284-93
Krasner MS, Epstein RM, Beckman H, Suchman AL, Chapman B, Mooney CJ, Quill TE.
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA. michael_krasner@urmc.rochester.edu
CONTEXT: Primary care physicians report high levels of distress, which is linked to burnout, attrition, and poorer quality of care. Programs to reduce burnout before [...]
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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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Recently published in the journal, Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2009 Jul 15
Pace TW, Negi LT, Sivilli TI, Issa MJ, Cole SP, Adame DD, Raison CL.
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Winship Cancer Center, 1365C Clifton Road, Atlanta, GA 30322, United States.
Increasing data suggest that meditation impacts stress-related physiological processes relevant to health and [...]
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Expressing Humanism in Each Medical Encounter
Ami Schattner, MD
Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(12):1095-1099.
Humanistic behavior is considered an essential component of professional medical care. However, the evidence shows that it is often neglected. Many barriers to the expression of sensitivity to the patient’s concerns and empathy and compassion in the clinical encounter can be [...]
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The Care of the Patient
Francis Peabody, MD
JAMA. 1927;88(12):877-882
“The most common criticism made at present by older practitioners is that young graduates have been taught a great deal about the mechanism of disease, but very little about the practice of medicine—or to put it more bluntly, they are too “scientific” and do not know how to [...]
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(Aug 14, 2009 — Aug 19, 2009 at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center, http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=196)
Using the Five Buddha Family Mandala as a base, we explore practices, processes, and perspectives on how the capacity for servant-leadership is culitivated by bearing witness to the charnel grounds of life. This brave practice forms the base for socially-engaged practice, social change work, and peacemaking.
Servant-leadership [...]
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(Aug 05, 2009 — Aug 09, 2009 at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center, http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=193)
This exceptional program explores through teaching, interactive sessions, and meditation the neurological basis of social intelligence. Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) is a way of thinking about the experience of being human and how we develop well-being in our lives and the life of the world through the [...]
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(Jul 10, 2009 — Jul 12, 2009 at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center, http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=280)
This retreat is for professional and family caregivers, those with life-threatening illness and those wishing to explore approaches to end-of-life care and issues related to dying and death. Participants will explore our views of pain, suffering, mortality, and freedom from suffering; perspectives on our encounter with [...]
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(May 29, 2009 — May 31, 2009 at the Upaya Institute and Zen Center, http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=187)
In this weekend retreat, Dr. Wallace focuses on two methods for cultivating meditative quiescence, or shamatha. In addition to exploring the important neuroscience research being done on Dr. Wallace’s Shamatha project, he will teach, shamatha, the practice of “mindfulness of breathing”, which is an effective approach [...]
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