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The Neural Basis of the Complex Mental Task of Meditation: Neurotransmitter and Neurochemical Considerations
Meditation is a complex mental process involving changes in cognition, sensory perception, affect, hormones, and autonomic activity. Meditation has also become widely used in psychological and medical...
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A cognitive science dialogue : consciousness East and West
Buddhist scholar B. Alan Wallace and contemporary philosopher of mind John Searle join for a discussion and debate on Buddhist and Western approaches to a science of consciousness. Wallace, who's app...
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Toward a biochemistry of mind?
In a special edition of the American Journal of Psychiatry, neuroscientists examine mental and emotional states that were previously consider the domain of psychology, religious studies, philos...
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An East Asian perspective of mind-body
This paper addresses a need to re-examine the mind-body dualism established since Descartes. Descartes' dualism has been regarded by modern philosophers as an extremely insufficient solution to the pr...
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The measurement of regional cerebral blood flow during the complex cognitive task of meditation : a preliminary SPECT study
Blood flow in the cerbral cortex of Tibetan Buddhist meditators was observed using Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT), a brain imaging technique which measures metabolic activity in th...
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HMPAO-SPECT imaging during intense Tibetan Buddhist meditation
Using brain imaging techniques, investigators measured brain activity of an advanced Tibetan Buddhist meditator. The results showed an increase of blood flow during the peak of meditation to the left ...
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The mind and the brain : neuroplasticity and the power of mental force
The Mind and the Brain, co-written by psychiatrist Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Wall Street Journal writer Sharon Begley, looks at the question of the relation between the brain and the mind drawing...
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Consciousness at the crossroads : conversations with the Dalai Lama on brainscience and Buddhism
Consciousness at the Crossroads is a record of the Dalai Lama's meeting with Western psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and philosophers in October of 1989. This was the second formal conference b...
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The center for the study of science and religion (CSSR)
The purpose of the Center for the Study of Science and Religion is to pursue important issues in science, medicine, ethics, economics, and other areas through scholarship and interdisciplinary dialogu...
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Medtation changes brains
This article on ScienCentral gives a basic overview of the findings of an initial study on mindfulness meditation, the brain, and the immune system conducted at the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison. Re...
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