Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference
2008
Parvaneh Eskandari, Abbas Erfanian
Cognitive tasks using motor imagery have been used for generating and controlling EEG activity in most brain-computer interface (BCI). Nevertheless, during the performance of a particular mental task, different factors such as concentration, attention, level of consciousness and the difficulty of the task, may be affecting the changes in the EEG activity. Accordingly, training the subject to...
Asian Medicine
2008
Aspasia Leledaki, David J Brown
13 citations
Abstract This paper explores the transformation of a dualistic mind-body relationship as reported by participants in a recent qualitative study involving modern yoga and meditation practitioners. The stories of the practitioners focused strongly on transforming a body-self that was configured as a result of living a life in Western cultural contexts where philosophies of mind-body dualisms were...
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology
January 2008
M Sadlier, S D G Stephens, V Kennedy
Chronic tinnitus is a frequent symptom presentation in clinical practice. No drug treatment to date has shown itself to be effective. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effects of cognitive behavioural therapy and meditation in tinnitus sufferers. Patients were selected from a dedicated tinnitus clinic in the Welsh Hearing Institute. A waiting list control design was used....
Photochemistry and Photobiology
2008
Brenda L. Bratton
1 citation
President Roosevelt thanks Simon Wolf for the speech and is sorry that he has already appointed someone for Cairo.
Progress in Brain Research
2008
Dhananjay V Chavan
The chapter reviews certain practical aspects related to Vipassana , a first-person method taught by the Buddha, to probe one's stream of conscious experience, its contents and related material events. Although references to Vipassana are found scattered throughout the Pali literature the most comprehensive and detailed account with regard to its practice is contained in the Satipatthana Sutta....
IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
2008
Richard J. Davidson, Antoine Lutz
282 citations
The term neuroplasticity is used to describe the brain changes that occur in response to experience. This article examines the changes in the brain that occur during different styles of meditation practice.
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy
2008
Cynthia Gayman
440 citations
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X08093575 2008; 14; 129 Body Society Bryan S. Turner Turner, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore pp. 256, ISBN 978 0 521 67587 1 paperback, $24.99 Reviewed by Bryan S. by Richard Shusterman Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, Body Consciousness: A Philosophy of Mindfulness and Somaesthetics Review Article: Somaesthetics and the Critique of...
Journal of Phenomenological Psychology
2008
Jerry L Grenard
12 citations
AbstractZen students described their experiences when working with koans, and a phenomenological method was used to identify the structure of those experiences. Zen koans are statements or stories developed in China and Japan by Zen masters in order to help students transform their conscious awareness of the world. Eight participants including 3 females and 5 males from Southern California with...
cIRcle (University of British Columbia)
2008
Scott E. Lawrance
Various forms of meditation are being used by an increasing number of people in North America. Practiced both within the context of an overarching spiritual path and as a self-regulation strategy, meditation is sometimes a supplement to traditional forms of psychotherapy. At other times, meditation, as part of a spiritual practice, is used as an alternative approach to mental health and...
Evidence-based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
December 27, 2007
E. Short, S. Kose, Q. Mu et al.
Meditation involves attentional regulation and may lead to increased activity in brain regions associated with attention such as dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and anterior cingulate cortex (ACC). Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we examined whether DLPFC and ACC were activated during meditation. Subjects who meditate were recruited and scanned on a 3.0 Tesla scanner....