A5021703830- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Emotions and Moral Behavior
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Psychedelics and Drug Studies
- Chemical synthesis and alkaloids
- Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Sleep and Wakefulness Research
- EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Islamic Thought and Society Studies
- Chinese history and philosophy
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Media Influence and Health
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2017-2025
Emory University
2007-2022
Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital
2022
Royal Perth Hospital
2022
Southern Oregon University
2018
Ashland (United States)
2018
Harvard University
1996
Vanderbilt University
1986
Peabody
1986
University College Dublin
1956
Drawing upon research in neuroscience, cognitive science, developmental psychology and education, as well scholarship from contemplative traditions concerning the cultivation of positive development, we highlight a set mental skills socio-emotional dispositions that believe are central to aims education 21(st) century. These include self-regulatory associated with emotion attention, self-representations, prosocial such empathy compassion. qualities can be strengthened through systematic...
In the past 20 years, mindfulness therapeutic programs have moved firmly into mainstream of clinical practice and beyond. As they have, we also seen development an increasingly vocal critique. At issue is often less whether or not these practices "work," more there a danger in dissociating them from ethical frameworks for which were originally developed. Mindfulness, argument goes, was never supposed to be about weight loss, better sex, helping children perform school, employees productive...
Objective Evaluate student effects of participating in an undergraduate academic course, Art and Science Human Flourishing, that was offered a synchronous, virtual format during the Fall 2020 semester at three universities.
Meditation practice and psychedelic use have attracted increasing attention in the public sphere scientific research. Both methods induce non-ordinary states of consciousness that may significant therapeutic benefits. Thus, there is growing interest potential synergies between meditation with some research suggesting psychedelics benefit practice. The present study examined individual, psychedelic-related, meditation-related factors to determine under what conditions meditators perceive as...
Thoughtless Buddha, Passionate Buddha Get access John D. Dunne D is a Doctoral candidate in the Study of Religion, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal American Academy Volume LXIV, Issue 3, Fall 1996, Pages 525–556, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXIV.3.525 Published: 01 October 1996
Abstract Introduction Meditation practice and psychedelic use have attracted increasing attention in the public sphere scientific research. Both methods induce non-ordinary states of consciousness that may significant therapeutic benefits. Thus, there is growing interest potential synergies between meditation with some research suggesting psychedelics benefit practice. The present study examined individual, psychedelic-related, meditation-related factors to determine under what conditions...
In psychological science, mindfulness and compassion are thought to promote physical health, mental well-being even virtuous character. Yet in Buddhist philosophy, can cause suffering when the two not balanced. One key mechanism of is ‘dereification,’ which amounts experiencing one’s thoughts just as real representations world. If one focuses solely on unreal representations, simply dismiss all such activity, leading apathy. Compassion be problematic if gets caught up other-cherishing...
Recent EEG studies on the early postmortem interval that suggest persistence of electrophysiological coherence and connectivity in brain animals humans reinforce need for further investigation relationship between brain’s activity dying process. Neuroscience is now a position to empirically evaluate extended process and, more specifically, investigate possibility following cessation cardiac respiratory function. Under direction Center Healthy Minds at University Wisconsin-Madison, research...