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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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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Neurology. 2008 Jun 10;70(24):2321-8.
Wahbeh H, Elsas SM, Oken BS.
Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, Mail Code CR120, Portland, OR 97239, USA.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Half of the adults in the United States use complementary and alternative medicine with mind-body therapy being the most [...]
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Posted in Neuroscience on Apr 8th, 2010
Transcult Psychiatry. 2008 Mar;45(1):5-30.
Kelly BD.
University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. brendankelly35@gmail.com
Abstract
Buddhist psychology is increasingly informing psychotherapeutic practice in the western world. This article: (a) provides a general background to Buddhist tradition; (b) outlines the central tenets of Buddhist psychology, with particular emphasis on the practice of meditation; (c) provides [...]
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Posted in Neuroscience on Apr 6th, 2010
Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2009 Aug
William C. Bushell
A “framework” is presented for understanding empirically confirmed and unconfirmed phenomena in the Indo-Tibetan meditation system, from an integrative perspective, and providing evidence that certain meditative practices enable meditators to realize the innate human potential to perceive light “at the limits imposed by [...]
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Posted in Neuroscience, Zen Tradition on Apr 6th, 2010
from Emotion. 2010 Feb;10(1):43-53.
Grant JA, Courtemanche J, Duerden EG, Duncan GH, Rainville P.
Département de physiologie, Université de Montréal Centre de recherche en science neurologiques, Montréal, QC, Canada. joshua.grant@umontreal.ca
Zen meditation has been associated with low sensitivity on both the affective and the sensory dimensions of pain. Given [...]
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from Psychol Med. 2009 Nov 27:1-14.
Chiesa A, Serretti A.
Institute of Psychiatry, University of Bologna, Italy.
BACKGROUND: Mindfulness meditation (MM) practices constitute an important group of meditative practices that have received growing attention. The aim of the present paper was to systematically review current evidence on the neurobiological changes and [...]
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Posted in Neuroscience on Apr 5th, 2010
from Brain Res Bull. 2010 Mar 16
Manna A, Raffone A, Perrucci MG, Nardo D, Ferretti A, Tartaro A, Londei A, Del Gratta C, Belardinelli MO, Romani GL.
ITAB, Institute for Advanced Biomedical Technologies, “G. D’Annunzio” University Foundation, Chieti, Italy; Department of Clinical Sciences and [...]
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Posted in Neuroscience on Apr 5th, 2010
from Med Hypotheses. 2010 Mar 11
Fell J, Axmacher N, Haupt S.
Department of Epileptology, University of Bonn, Sigmund-Freud Str. 25, D-53105 Bonn, Germany.
Meditation practice is difficult to access because of its countless forms of appearances originating from the complexity of cultures it has to serve. This makes a suitable [...]
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