Overview

Modern scientific knowledge of how stress affects the brain and body and how the brain can become re-organized to produce states of focused attention that promote learning and change has burgeoned over the past decade.

This session will showcase some of the latest scientific research on these topics to provide a foundation for the likely substrates upon which meditation might operate. In addition, a detailed understanding of the biological substrates of stress and plasticity will provide a framework for the design of new research that is based upon this recent understanding.

Dialogue 13
16 sessions
November 8, 2005
Dar Constitution Hall, Washington, DC
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Speakers

Wolf Singer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and Founding Director of the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and the Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Brain Research. He studied medicine at the Universities of Munich and Paris, received his M.D. from the Ludwig Maximilian University and his Ph.D. from the Technical University in Munich. Until the mid-eighties his research interests were focused on the experience-dependent development of the cerebral cortex and on mechanisms of use-dependent synaptic plasticity. Subsequently, his research concentrated on the binding problem that arises from the distributed organization of the cerebral cortex.

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