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Introduction A Confluence of Streams and a Flowering of Possibilities
A Brief History
The Context of the 2005 Meeting: Mind and Life XIII
The State of the Science: 2005 to 2011
A Cozy Setting
The Meeting Gets Under way
Session 1 Meditation-Based Clinical Interventions: Science, Practice, and Implementation
Ajahn Amaro How Buddhist Meditative Practices Can Inform Our Understanding of Pain and Suffering, the Potential for Healing, the Relief of Suffering, and the Underlying Nature of the Human Mind and Body
Jon Kabat-Zinn Some Clinical Applications of Mindfulness Meditation in Medicine and Psychiatry: The Case of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Richard Davidson Mind-Brain-Body Interaction and Meditation
Session 1 Dialogue
Session 2 Possible Biological Substrates of Meditation
Wolf Singer Synchronization of Brain Rhythms as a Possible Mechanism for the Unification of Distributed Mental Processes
Robert Sapolsky The Neurobiology of the Adaptive and Deleterious Features of Stress
Session 2 Dialogue
Session 3 Clinical Research 1: Meditation and Mental Health
Zindel Segal Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and the Prevention of Relapse in Recurrent Depression
Helen Mayberg Paths to Recovery: Neural Substrates of Cognitive and Mindfulness-Based Interventions for the Treatment of Depression
Session 3 Dialogue
Interlude Preceding Session 4
Alan Wallace The Buddhist Science of Human Flourishing
Interlude Dialogue
Session 4 Clinical Research 2: Meditation and Physical Health
David Sheps Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Cardiovascular Disease
John Sheridan Neural-Immune Interaction
Session 4 Dialogue
Session 5 Integration and Final Reflections
Ralph Snyderman Meditation and the Future of Health Care
Wolf Singer Some Reflections on the Evolution and Nature of Mind and Self, and Their Implications for Humanity
Session 5 Dialogue
Advances in Basic and Clinical Research on Meditation in the Five Years Following Mind and Life XIII: 2006–2011
Basic Research
Clinical Research
Methodological Challenges
Prospects for the Future
Color Plates
Acknowledgments
Notes
Contributors
About the Mind and Life Institute
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