Clinical Research on Meditation & Mental Health: Paths to recovery – neural substrates of cognitive and mindfulness-based interventions for the treatment of depression - Mind & Life Institute

Dialogue 13|Session 10

Overview

Functional neuroimaging has established that both non-pharmacological and pharmacological treatments for depression both change the brain, though they change the brain in different ways. This presentation will present findings from positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of functional brain changes mediating depression remission using cognitive behavioral therapy. Differences between cognitive and pharmacological interventions will be discussed in the context of limbic-cortical network model of depression. Implications of this work for understanding the impact of mindfulness meditation as an intervention in the treatment of depression will be considered.

Dialogue 13
16 sessions
November 9, 2005
Dar Constitution Hall, Washington, DC
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Speakers

Helen S. Mayberg is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at Emory University School of Medicine. She received her B.A. in Psychobiology from University of California, Los Angeles and the M.D. degree from the University of Southern California. Following an internship in Internal Medicine at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, and a Residency in Neurology at the Neurological Institute, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Nuclear Medicine at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Mayberg has held academic positions at Johns Hopkins, the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio, and was the first Sandra Rotman Chair in Neuropsychiatry at the Rotman Research Institute and the University of Toronto

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