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Brain & Cognitive Science Offerings

Blog
Exploring What’s Next in Contemplative Research: 15 Questions to Consider
Erin McCarthy • December 5, 2024
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom

Blog
Healing the Opioid Crisis with Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement
Eric Garland • September 18, 2024
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Videos
Carolyn Parkinson—Creating a Shared Social World
Mind and Life Institute • September 16, 2024
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Self & Other

Mind & Life Connect – Session 4
Developing Emotional Awareness to Understand Burnout
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

2023 Summer Research Institute
Trauma, Resilience, and Flourishing
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life Connect – Session 3
Trauma and Resilience
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life Connect – Session 2
Our Emotional Lives: Exploring the Complex Relationship between Stress, Trauma, and the Body
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life Connect – Session 1
Cultivating Trust in the Body
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Mental Health | Self & Other | Stress & Resilience

Blog
In Your Dreams: One Mind & Life Grantee Has Big Hopes for Exploring the Past and Future of Tibetan Dream Yoga
Brynn Pedrick • March 13, 2023
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health

Blog
New Global Majority Leadership and Mentorship Program Heralds an Era of Anti-Racist, Inclusive Contemplative Scholarship and Science
Kamilah Majied • January 10, 2023
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Education | Social Change

Blog
Building on a Rich Legacy: International Society for Contemplative Research to Host Inaugural Conference February 2-5, 2023
Erin McCarthy • September 9, 2022
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Social Change

Blog
On the Path to Belonging at the 2022 Summer Research Institute
Mind and Life Institute • July 11, 2022
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Self & Other

2022 Summer Research Institute
Othering, Belonging, and Becoming
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Self & Other | Social Change


Mind & Life Videos
Building Bridges: A Mind & Life Origin Story with Adam Engle
Mind and Life Institute • May 13, 2022

Blog
Norm Farb: Strategies for Coping with Today’s Stress Epidemic
Sheila Kinkade • April 17, 2022
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health

Blog
Planting Seeds for a New Research Field: Lessons from the Early Days of Mind & Life
Adam Engle • February 13, 2022

Varela Grant
Biological and psychological mechanisms of mindfulness meditation-based interventions for depression
Matthew Sacchet
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

PEACE Grant
Overcoming barriers to social connection and love
Abigail Marsh
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Self & Other

Inspiring Minds – November 2021
Mindfulness Approaches to Addiction and Recovery
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Illuminating the Mind: Exploring Buddhism and Science with the Dalai Lama
Illuminating the Mind: Exploring Buddhism and Science with the Dalai Lama
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom


Think Tanks
Master Plants and Mindful Medicine: Towards Reciprocation and Recontextualization of Indigenous Practices and Western Psychedelic Research
Yuria Celidwen, Dacher Keltner, Juan Nelson Rojas, Yuniur Vazquez Rosalio, Nicole Redvers
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Self & Other | Social Change

2021 Summer Research Institute Session
The Critical Role of Behavioral Science in Climate Change
Elissa Epel
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Environment

Inspiring Minds – April 2021
The Role of Attention and Awareness in an Era of Misinformation and Digital Seduction
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness

Blog
Coping with Loneliness & Stress: The Role of Mindful Acceptance
Sheila Kinkade • January 4, 2021
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant
Examining Individual Differences in Contemplative Practice Response
Tawni Tidwell
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Blog
Bridging Psychology and Contemplative Practice to Benefit Hearts and Minds Today
Paul Condon • December 8, 2020
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection

PEACE Grant
Sleep’s role in realizing the prosocial benefits of contemplative practice
Ken Paller
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness


PEACE Grant: Samuel B. Hanser Visionary Grant
How do the benefits of meditation spread? Investigating interpersonal mechanisms following practice
Christopher May, Marieke van Vugt
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mindfulness

2020 Contemplative Research Conference Session
Keynote and Q&A: “Understanding Human Thought Through Dynamic Brain Systems”
Kalina Christoff
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

2020 Contemplative Research Conference Session
Plenary Panel: “Starting from Experience: Neurophenomenology and the Vision of Mind and Life Europe”
Moderators: John Dunne
Panel: Amy Cohen Varela, Antoine Lutz, Andreas Roepstorff
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

2020 Contemplative Research Conference
State of the Field—Discoveries, Opportunities, and Challenges
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Blog
Calling on Our Shared Humanity
Susan Bauer-Wu • November 4, 2020
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Self & Other

Blog
How One Scientist is Using Mindfulness to Transform Treatment for Pain and Addiction
Sheila Kinkade • October 27, 2020
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness


Think Tanks
International Society for Contemplative Research
Linda Carlson, Amishi Jha, Erin McCarthy, Harold Roth, Zindel Segal, David Vago, Fadel Zeidan
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Environment | Interconnection | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change | Stress & Resilience

Blog
Cultivating Pro-Sociality at a Time of Unprecedented Change
Mind and Life Institute • July 12, 2020
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Education | Social Change

Blog
Message from the Dalai Lama in a Time of Crisis: “We Have to Think of One Humanity”
Mind and Life Institute • July 2, 2020
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other

Mind & Life Videos
2020 Mind & Life Conversation with the Dalai Lama: Resilience, Compassion, and Science for Healing Today
Mind and Life Institute • June 19, 2020
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other

2020 Mind & Life Conversation
Mind & Life Conversation: Resilience, Compassion, and Science for Healing Today
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other

2020 Summer Research Institute Session
Compassion-Centered Spiritual Healthcare
Jennifer Mascaro
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

2020 Summer Research Institute Session
Developmental Contemplative Science: Framework for the Study of Prosocial Development
Phil Zelazo
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Education

2020 Summer Research Institute
Cultivating Prosocial Development Across the Lifespan: Context Relationships, and Contemplative Practices
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Education | Social Change

Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life 2020 President’s Call
Mind and Life Institute • May 20, 2020
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Social Change

Blog
New Mind & Life Podcast to Tell Deeper Story of Contemplative Science
Sheila Kinkade • March 20, 2020

Blog
Where Does Your Mind Wander—And Does It Matter?
Arnaud Delorme • February 28, 2020
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Stress & Resilience

Blog
Fellow Spotlight: Norm Farb
Joshua Whitwell • February 17, 2020
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

Blog
Helen Weng: Using Science to Spread a Message of Compassion, Equity, and Inclusion
Sheila Kinkade • January 29, 2020
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other | Social Change

Varela Grant
The histories of Varela’s legacy within the contemplative sciences
Shayna Fox Lee
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
A meditation intervention for repetitive subconcussive head impact exposure in youth sports
William Flood
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant
Linking embodiment with the neural circuitry of mindfulness and reward
Véronique Taylor
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Blog
Fellow Spotlight: Jennifer Mascaro
Joshua Whitwell • November 18, 2019
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection

Mind & Life Videos
2019 Mind & Life Conversation with the Dalai Lama & David Sloan Wilson
Mind and Life Institute • October 30, 2019
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Environment | Interconnection

Blog
Special Issue on Mindfulness
Mind and Life Institute • October 16, 2019
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness


Think Tanks
Critical Neuroscience and the Politics of Mindfulness Interventions for Youth: A Proposal for an Interdisciplinary Working Group
Suparna Choudhury, William Wannynn, Elena Hailwood, Steven Stanley, Jennifer Thomson
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Education | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Social Change

2019 Summer Research Institute Session
From Looking Out to Looking In: Re-Thinking How We Study and Train Attention in Mental Health
Amit Bernstein
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness


2019 Summer Research Institute Session
Interdisciplinary Panel: Translating Neuroscience
Moderators: Andrew Dreitcer, Elissa Epel
Panel: Anil Seth, Clifford Saron, Daniel Siegel, Lawrence Barsalou, Yoona Kang, Norman Farb, Elissa Epel, Andrew Dreitcer
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Education

2019 Summer Research Institute
Exploring Mental Habits: Contemplative Practices and Interventions for Individual and Social Flourishing
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Self & Other | Social Change

2019 Summer Research Institute Session
Measuring, Understanding, and Changing Mental Habits
Lawrence Barsalou
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

2019 Summer Research Institute Session
Mental Habits, Prediction Machines, and Controlled Hallucinations
Anil Seth
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health

2019 Summer Research Institute Session
Breaking Habits: Self-Transcendence and Health Behavior Change
Yoona Kang
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Self & Other


Blog
Meditation for Mental Health: How Does Mindfulness Compare to Other Treatments?
Sheila Kinkade • January 25, 2019
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness



Think Tanks
Mechanisms of Meditation and Consequences for Clinical Practice
Marieke van Vugt
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Self & Other

Varela Grant
Measuring meta-awareness in the present moment
Thomas Anderson
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Transforming habits from the heart: From good intentions to reliable prosocial response
Rémi Thériault
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection

Varela Grant
Is knowing the body knowing the mind? Mind-body coherence, interoception, and contemplative training
Sasha Sommerfeldt
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life Videos
Jon Kabat-Zinn – Where Is This All Going, and What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Mind and Life Institute • November 11, 2018
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Videos
Norm Farb – How to Choose Between Beautiful Stories
Mind and Life Institute • November 11, 2018
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research
International Symposium for Contemplative Research 2018
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Self & Other

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Master Lectures: Integrating First–person Inquiry in the Higher Education Classroom
Judith Simmer-Brown
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Mindfulness | Self & Other

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Master Lectures: The Neural and Physiological Mechanisms Supporting Mindfulness–induced Pain Relief
Fadel Zeidan
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Master Lectures: Mindfulness to Meaning: Healing Hedonic Dysregulation in Addiction, Stress, and Pain with Mindfulness–Oriented Recovery Enhancement
Eric Garland
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Catherine Kerr Award Ceremony and Lectures: “How to Choose Between Beautiful Stories”
Norman Farb
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Contemplative Session: Putting the Mind in the Heart: Centering Prayer and the Christian Contemplative Tradition
Cynthia Bourgeault
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Closing Keynote “Where Is This All Going, and What’s Love—and Insight, Embodied Wisdom, and Community—Got to Do With It?”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Interconnection | Mindfulness
Video Available

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Master Lectures: Contemplative Studies Panel: Contemplating the Future of “Contemplative Studies”
Moderators: Erin McCarthy
Panel: Amishi Jha, Harold Roth, Ed Sarath, Erin McCarthy
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Self & Other

2018 International Symposium for Contemplative Research Session
Master Lectures: Mindfulness Training in High Demand, Time-Pressured Real-world Settings: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Amishi Jha
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

2018 International Research Institute
Contemplative Practice in Context: Culture, History, and Science
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Mindfulness

2018 International Research Institute Session
Contemplative Practice in Context: Embodiment, Enactment and the Cultural Neurophenomenology of Experience
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other

2018 International Research Institute Session
Neuroscience as a Modern Context for Studying Meditation: How Far Are We, Really?
Gaelle Desbordes
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

2018 International Research Institute Session
Observation of the Mind in Buddhism and Mindfulness
Kenryo Minowa
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness | Self & Other

2018 International Research Institute Session
The Whole Person Sits: Social Imaginaries of Practitioners and Researchers in the Scientific Study of Meditation
Clifford Saron
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education

2018 International Research Institute Session
The Zen Roots of Contemplative Studies
Harold Roth
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Self & Other

2018 Summer Research Institute Session
Flexible Social Cognition and Dehumanisation
Lasana Harris
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Self & Other

2018 Summer Research Institute
Engaging Cultural Difference and Human Diversity
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change

2018 Summer Research Institute Session
Contemplative Neuroscience through the Lens of Diversity and Social Justice
Helen Weng
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Social Change

2018 Summer Research Institute Session
Neurological Identities: Challenging the Brain as the Locus of Difference
Suparna Choudhury
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Social Change

2018 Summer Research Institute Session
Person-Perception, Self-Perception, and Moral Development from Infancy to Adolescence
Robert Roeser
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Self & Other

Blog
Pain Relief without Opioids?
Wendy Hasenkamp • April 26, 2018
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Blog
Meditation and Science: Ten Essays Worth Reading
Michael Sheehy • April 23, 2018
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness


2018 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXIII Session
Evaluation and Implementation: Challenges and Opportunities for Human Flourishing
Sonia Lupien, Patricia (Tish) Jennings, Aaron Stern
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience


2018 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXIII Session
Meta-Awareness and Attention Training in Education Research
Amishi Jha, Sona Dimidjian, Thupten Jinpa, Richard J. Davidson
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience


2018 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXIII Session
Early Childhood Development and Social Emotional Learning
Richard J. Davidson, Michel Boivin, Daniel Goleman, Kimberly Schonert-Reichl
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Stress & Resilience

Blog
Tania Singer’s Exploration into How Meditation Training Transforms the Brain, the Individual, and Society at Large
Mind and Life Institute • December 18, 2017
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Social Change

Varela Grant
Mindfulness-to-Meaning theory and eudaimonic appraisals of positive autobiographical events
Le-Anh Dinh-Williams
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant
A real-time fMRI study to link subjective experience with brain network dynamics during craving
Kathleen Garrison
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Intracranial circuits underlying Deep Slow Breathing and its palliative effects
Jose Herrero
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness


Mind & Life Videos
A Conversation with Jim Austin and Susan Bauer-Wu
Mind and Life Institute • November 20, 2017
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Social Change

Blog
A Conversation with Jim Austin and Susan Bauer-Wu
Cat McCue • November 20, 2017
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Social Change

Think Tanks
Core Measures for Mindfulness Studies
Rick Hecht
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Blog
The ever-evolving connection between culture and human biology
Michael K. Juberg • September 29, 2017
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Social Change

Blog
Promoting Openness and Transparency in the Contemplative Sciences
Wendy Hasenkamp • August 25, 2017
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Social Change

Mind & Life Videos
MLI XXXII Session 4
Mind and Life Institute • August 18, 2017
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change

Mind & Life Videos
MLI XXXII Session 3
Mind and Life Institute • August 18, 2017
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Stress & Resilience


2017 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXII Session
Session IV – The Role of Botho/Ubuntu in Modern Responses to Children’s and Women’s Rights Issues in Africa
Graça Machel, Theo Sowa
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change
Audio AvailableVideo Available


2017 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXII Session
Session IV – The Biology of Care and Conflict in Groups
Carsten K.W. De Dreu, Theo Sowa
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Self & Other | Social Change
Audio AvailableVideo Available


2017 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXII Session
Session III – The Impact of Trauma on the Brain: Structural Changes and Behavioral Outcome
Rebecca Shansky, Theo Sowa
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Stress & Resilience
Audio AvailableVideo Available


2017 Mind & Life Dialogue XXXII Session
Session III – I am Because we are: Dynamic and Embodied Brain-to-brain Coupling as a new Framework for Social Interaction Between People
Uri Hasson, Theo Sowa
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Self & Other
Audio AvailableVideo Available

Blog
Interconnection, Inclusivity and Transdisciplinary Collaboration in Contemplative Research
Mind and Life Institute • August 7, 2017
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection

Blog
Building a Humane Science of Intersubjectivity
Alex Tzelnic • June 23, 2017
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection

Blog
Meditating Together: Tania Singer on the Contemplative Dyad
Mind and Life Institute • June 21, 2017
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness | Self & Other

Blog
Is Technology Interfering with Our Most Intimate Relationships?
Sam Mowe • June 20, 2017
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection

2017 Summer Research Institute Session
Interdisciplinary Panel Social Networks: Intersubjectivity, Connectivity and Technology
Moderators: Elissa Epel
Panel: Pete Fleming, David Sbarra, Tania Singer, Elissa Epel
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Self & Other

2017 Summer Research Institute Session
Plasticity of the Social Brain: Effects of a One-year Mental Training Study on Social Connectedness, Compassion, Theory of Mind, Social Stress, and the Body
Tania Singer
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Stress & Resilience

2017 Summer Research Institute Session
Love and Enaction: Towards an Engaged Epistemology
Hanne De Jaegher
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Self & Other

2017 Summer Research Institute Session
Social Connectivity, Mind States, and Biological Aging
Elissa Epel
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

2017 Summer Research Institute Session
Relationships, Health, and Technology: Toward an Evolutionary Mismatch?
David Sbarra
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mental Health

2017 Summer Research Institute
Intersubjectivity and Social Connectivity
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection | Mental Health | Self & Other | Social Change

2017 Summer Research Institute Session
Interdependency: the Buddha’s Central Insight
William Waldron
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection

2017 Summer Research Institute Session
The Enactive Approach to Cognition
Evan Thompson
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science

Mind & Life 1440 Grant
The effect of mindfulness training on executive function and social cognition in the developing brain: An EEG study in preschoolers practicing mindfulness
Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Education | Mindfulness

Blog
The PhenoTank: A Mind & Life Think Tank on the Microphenomenology of Contemplative Experience
Michael Sheehy • May 16, 2017
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection

Blog
How personal experience as a racial minority led to a career studying compassion meditation in diverse populations
Michael K. Juberg • March 27, 2017
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Social Change

Blog
An interview with Eric Garland, Ph.D.
Michael K. Juberg • February 24, 2017
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Videos
qwantify – global research project on desire and happiness
Mind and Life Institute • January 4, 2017
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science


Think Tanks
Microphenomenology and Contemplative Experience: Exploring the Intra- and Intersubjective Dynamics of Language and Embodied Experience
Andreas Roepstorff, Claire Petitmengin, Anne Klein

Varela Grant
Investigating the impact of yoga on brain aging: A randomized controlled trial
Joseph Therriault
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health

Blog
The Mind & Life community remembers Cathy Kerr
Mind and Life Institute • November 28, 2016
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2016 – Closing Keynote – Evan Thompson
Mind and Life Institute • November 13, 2016
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Self & Other

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2016 – Master Lecture – Clifford Saron
Mind and Life Institute • November 12, 2016
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2016 – Master Lecture – Jeremy Hunter
Mind and Life Institute • November 12, 2016
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2016 – Master Lecture – Niki Clements
Mind and Life Institute • November 12, 2016

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2016 – Master Lecture – Thupten Jinpa
Mind and Life Institute • November 11, 2016
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2016 – Master Lecture – Lizabeth Roemer
Mind and Life Institute • November 11, 2016
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2016 – Master Lecture – Judson Brewer
Mind and Life Institute • November 11, 2016
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2016 – Keynote – Zindel Segal
Mind and Life Institute • November 11, 2016
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2016 – Opening Keynote – Richard Davidson, Matthieu Ricard
Mind and Life Institute • November 10, 2016
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Self & Other

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
NCCIH Research Priorities and Funding Opportunities for Mind and Body Health
Partap Khalsa
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Tibetan Sound Meditation
Alejandro Chaoul
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Closing Keynote: What is Mindfulness? An Embodied Cognitive Science Perspective
Evan Thompson
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Self & Other

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Engaged Contemplative Practice in Islamic Sufism: Silent Emphasis
Alan Godlas
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Master Lectures: Minding Mindfulness: Issues, Models, and Findings in the Scientific Study of Meditation
Clifford Saron
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Master Lectures: The Missing Link of Leadership Development: Cultivating Awareness in Action
Jeremy Hunter
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Stress & Resilience

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Ethical Know-How and Christian Contemplative Practices: A Case Study from Late Antiquity
Niki Clements

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Master Lectures: Mindfulness-Informed Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety
Lizabeth Roemer
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Mental Health | Mindfulness
2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Master Lectures: Understanding the Psychology Behind Compassion Meditation
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Mindfulness

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies
International Symposium for Contemplative Studies 2016
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Social Change

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Master Lectures: Neurobiological Underpinnings of Contemplative Practices: Is There Common Ground (and who cares)?
Judson Brewer
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness


2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Opening Keynote, Contemplative and Neuroscientific Perspectives on Personal and Social Well Being: A Conversation with Matthieu Ricard and Richard J. Davidson
Richard J. Davidson, Matthieu Ricard
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Self & Other

2016 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Keynote: Mindfulness Therapeutics in the Promotion of Mental Health
Zindel Segal
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health | Mindfulness

2016 Summer Research Institute Session
You Are Always on My Mind
Andreas Roepstorff
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Self & Other

2016 Summer Research Institute
People, Place, and Practice: Putting Contemplative Studies into Context
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection

2016 Summer Research Institute Session
Taxonomies, Lifeworlds, and Self-cultivation: Contemplative Practices in Multiple Contexts
David McMahan

2016 Summer Research Institute Session
Cognitive Ecology: Implications for Contemplative Science
Evan Thompson
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection

2016 Summer Research Institute Session
Community Engagement and Contemplative Neuroscience within a Diverse Contemplative Community
Helen Weng
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Social Change

2016 Summer Research Institute Session
On the Placebo Effect and Its Implications for the Science of Mindfulness
Catherine Kerr
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

2016 Summer Research Institute Session
Embodiment: Biocultural Dynamics in Pathways to Differential Well-Being
Carol Worthman
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Stress & Resilience

2016 Summer Research Institute Session
Ecologies of Mind in Health and Illness: A Perspective from Cultural Psychiatry
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Self & Other
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXX – Session 8
Mind and Life Institute • December 17, 2015
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXX – Session 7
Mind and Life Institute • December 17, 2015
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXX – Session 6
Mind and Life Institute • December 17, 2015
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXX – Session 5
Mind and Life Institute • December 17, 2015
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXX – Session 4
Mind and Life Institute • December 17, 2015
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXX – Session 3
Mind and Life Institute • December 17, 2015
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXX – Session 2
Mind and Life Institute • December 17, 2015
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other
Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life XXX – Session 1
Mind and Life Institute • December 17, 2015
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other

2015 Mind & Life Dialogue XXX
Perception, Concepts, and Self: Contemporary Scientific and Buddhist Perspectives
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Self & Other

Varela Grant
Dissecting de-automatization: The effect of mindfulness training on unconscious habit formation
Adam Hanley
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
The Meta-Awareness Task (MAT): A novel behavioral measurement methodology of mindfulness
Yuval Hadash
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness



Varela Grant
Neural and endocrine mechanisms mediating prosociality
Noopur Amin
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Self & Other

Varela Grant
The effects of mindfulness meditation on pain and heart rate variability
Adrienne Adler
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Creating implicit and phenomenological assessments of nonjudgmental orientation to experience
Jessica Peters
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Self & Other

Mind & Life Videos
The Mind & Life Institute
Mind and Life Institute • November 25, 2015
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness | Social Change

Mind & Life Videos
Francisco J. Varela Research Awards
Mind and Life Institute • September 15, 2015
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Blog
The contemplative path: How do we learn?
Wendy Hasenkamp • July 28, 2015
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness


Blog
The Contemplative Development Mapping Project: A new model for interdisciplinary investigation
Willoughby Britton, Jared Lindahl • July 15, 2015
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Interconnection

2015 Summer Research Institute Session
Social Baseline Theory: Health, Well-Being, and the Social Regulation of Effort
Jim Coan
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection

2015 Summer Research Institute Session
Professional Development Issues in Contemplative Science
Richard J. Davidson
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science

2015 Summer Research Institute Session
Positive and Negative Reinforcement – Experiencing the Forces that Form the Behavioral Repertoire
Martin Paulus
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science

2015 Summer Research Institute Session
Fear and Trust in the Laboratory
Cade McCall
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science

2015 Summer Research Institute Session
Fear in Action: Fear of Movement (Kinesiophobia) and Falling and their Treatment with Mind-Body Therapies
Peter Wayne
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science

2015 Summer Research Institute Session
Fear, Acceptance, and Compassion: Perspectives from Contemplative Neuroscience
Richard J. Davidson
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

2015 Summer Research Institute Session
To Approach or Avoid – Tension between Threat and Reward
Martin Paulus
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science

2015 Summer Research Institute Session
The ReSource Project: Fear, Trust, and the Effects of Mental Training
Cade McCall
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Developing an objective measure of mindfulness in daily life
Angelina Polsinelli
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Impacts of maternal mindfulness on mother-infant biological integrity
Benjamin Nelson
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience



Blog
Remembrance of things to come: the predictive nature of the mind and contemplative practices
Giuseppe Pagnoni, Wendy Hasenkamp • December 12, 2014

Varela Grant
The effects of mindfulness on gender stereotype threat
Jeff Yanli Lin
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Social Change

Mind & Life Videos
Mind & Life Institute: ISCS 2014 highlights
Mind and Life Institute • November 2, 2014
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Education | Mental Health
Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2014 – Master Lecture – Catherine Kerr
Mind and Life Institute • November 1, 2014
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2014 – Master Lecture – Ted Slingerland
Mind and Life Institute • November 1, 2014

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2014 – Master Lecture – Andrew Olendzki
Mind and Life Institute • November 1, 2014

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2014 – Master Lecture – Philip Zelazo
Mind and Life Institute • November 1, 2014
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Education | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2014 – Master Lecture – Zindel Segal
Mind and Life Institute • November 1, 2014
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2014 – Master Lecture – Sarah Bowen, Judson Brewer
Mind and Life Institute • October 31, 2014
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2014 – Master Lecture – Paul Ekman, B. Alan Wallace
Mind and Life Institute • October 31, 2014
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Interconnection

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2014 – Master Lecture – Evan Thompson
Mind and Life Institute • October 31, 2014

Mind & Life Videos
ISCS 2014 – Keynote Dialogue – His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Mind and Life Institute • October 31, 2014
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness


2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 5 – Externally-Induced Contemplation: A Neuroscience Study of Architecture
Julio Bermudez, David Lipschitz, Yoshio Nakamura
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 4 – Merleau-Ponty Reads Francisco Varela
Eduardo Velasquez
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 4 – Mapping the Mind: A Model Based on Theravada Buddhist Texts and Practices
Piyal Walpola

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 4 – Improving Attentional Functions Through Mindfulness Practice
Peter Malinowski
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 4 – Novel Techniques and Applications for Neurophenomenology: Observing Experience to Understand the Mind and Understanding the Mind to Improve Experience
Juan Santoyo
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science


2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 5 – First Findings from the ReSource Project: Training Mind and Heart
Anne Böckler, Boris Bornemann, Bethany Kok, Fynn-Mathis Trautwein
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 5 – NIH Career Award Funding for Your Early Career in Contemplative Science
Jeffrey Greeson
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 5 – Yoga, Mindfulness, Neuroscience, and the Body: Getting to the Heart of Matter
Bo Forbes


2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 5 – Emory-Tibet Science Initiative: Sustained Engagement Between Contemplatives and Scientists Offer Insights for Contemplative Science
Arri Eisen, Wendy Hasenkamp, Carol Worthman

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies
International Symposium for Contemplative Studies 2014
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 5 – Resuscitating the Heart: Hesychast Spirituality and the Neurophenomenology of Depression
Joshua Connor


2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 4 – Yoga: A Contemplative Technique for Mental WellBeing
Alejandro Chaoul, Sat Bir Khalsa, Elisa Kozasa, Sara Lazar

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 3 – Dream Neurophenomenology and Contemplative Sciences
Elizaveta Solomonova
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 3 – A Neurocognitive Model for Internal Time
Marc Howard
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 1 – Varela’s Promise: A Search for the Neural Correlates of the Phenomenological Reduction
Ishan Walpola
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science


2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Keynote Dialogue with His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Richard J. Davidson, Amishi Jha, Arthur Zajonc
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness
Audio AvailableVideo Available

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Master Lecture – Dreamless Sleep and Consciousness
Evan Thompson
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom
Audio AvailableVideo Available


2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Master Lecture – Buddhism, Behaviorism, and the Brain
Sarah Bowen, Judson Brewer
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness
Audio AvailableVideo Available


2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 3 – Integration and Engagement: Personal and Professional Practice in the Lab, the Clinic, and Education
Lone Fjorback, Andreas Roepstorff, Martijn van Beek
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Education | Mindfulness

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 1 – Validation of the Perceived Compassion Scale
Dent Gitchel
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 1 – Remote Emotional Memory for Depictions of Human Suffering Following an Intensive Meditation Intervention
Brandon King
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness


2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 1 -Neurocognitive Processes of Addiction: A Therapeutic Role for Mindfulness?
Brett Froeliger, Eric Garland, Zev Schuman-Olivier
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness


2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 1 – Yoga’s Self-Regulatory Functions in Promoting Psychological Health: A Proposed Model
Jessica Noggle-Taylor, Crystal Park, David Vago, Angela Wilson


2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 1 – Investigating the Phenomenal and Neurocognitive Matrix of Mindfulness-Related Practices
John Dunne, Amishi Jha, Antoine Lutz, Clifford Saron
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness


2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 1 – Can We Measure Mental Balance? Scientific and Contemplative Perspectives On Equanimity
Gaelle Desbordes, Dusana Dorjee, Elizabeth A. Hoge, Catherine Kerr, Sara Lazar, Andrew Olendzki, David Vago
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness


2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 1 – Deep Reading as Contemplative Practice
Maureen Hall, Aminda O'Hare, Robert Waxler
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 2 – The Social Side of Mindfulness: From Lab to Life
Jordan Quaglia
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mindfulness

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 3 – Does Mindfulness Meditation Employ Distinct Brain Mechanisms From Placebo-Related Analgesia?
Fadel Zeidan
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Master Lecture – Contemplative Clinical Science
Zindel Segal
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Audio AvailableVideo Available

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 2 – Exploring Sleep Paralysis
Terje Sparby

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Master Lecture – A Buddhist Contribution to Neurophenomenology
Andrew Olendzki
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom
Audio AvailableVideo Available

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Master Lecture – Contemplative Science Research and The Psychology of Confucian Virtue Ethics
Edward Slingerland
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom
Audio AvailableVideo Available

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Master Lecture – Contemplative Practice Starts with The Body
Catherine Kerr
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness
Audio AvailableVideo Available


2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 3 – Health Care (Medical) Implications of Meditative/ Contemplative Practice
Mardi Crane-Godreau, Barry Kerzin, Magdalena Naylor, Peter Wayne
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 3 – Mindfulness and SelfCompassion-Based Exposure Therapy for Combat Veterans with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Clinical Outcome and Neuroimaging Studies
Anthony King
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2014 International Symposium for Contemplative Studies Session
Concurrent Session 3 – Brain-Network Reconfiguration and Perceptual Decoupling During Rhythm Induced Trance
Michael Hove
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Videos
Mind and Life, Envisioning the Future of Contemplative Science
Mind and Life Institute • October 29, 2014
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Blog
A Question of Focus
Anthony Zanesco • October 19, 2014
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness



Blog
Nine Meditations from SRI 2013
Mind and Life Institute • September 18, 2014
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness

Blog
Ommm Ex Machina
Mind and Life Institute • September 18, 2014
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Blog
Grey Matters: Examining Subjective Experience
Wendy Hasenkamp • August 13, 2014
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Self & Other

Blog
The Craving Cycle
Marc Lewis • July 1, 2014
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health

Blog
Theory of Mind
Wendy Hasenkamp • June 18, 2014
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Contemplative Wisdom

2014 Mind & Life Dialogue XXIX
Mapping the Mind

Mind & Life 1440 Grant
Bringing relief to caregivers: Evaluating the effects of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on relational quality, psychological well-being and cognitive function in caregivers of patients with dementia
Alexandra Fiocco
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Neural dynamics of attention and meta-attention during meditation
John Plass
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Neural mechanisms of self-transcendence: Insights from noninvasive brain stimulation
Eileen Cardillo

Varela Grant
Mechanisms of mindfulness and stress resilience: A mobile app mindfulness training study
Emily Lindsay
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant
Does meditation cause pain relief through endogenous opioids?
Lisa May
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Stress & Resilience


Varela Grant
What is it about yoga? Isolating the effect of structured movement sequences on cognition, interoception, and stress markers
Chivon Powers, Laura Schmalzl

Varela Grant
The effects of contemplative training on brain structure and function in 6-year-old children
Sarah Short
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health

Varela Grant
The role of endogenous opioidergic systems in mindfulness meditation-related pain relief
Fadel Zeidan
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant
Examining the relationship of meditation experience to the neural correlates of spontaneous emotion regulation
Kathrine Shepherd
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Blog
Grey Matters: The BRAIN Initiative & Mapping the Mind
Wendy Hasenkamp • October 15, 2013
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship
Addressing moral distress in clinical practice: A contemplative, neuroscience-based intervention
Cynda Hylton Rushton

Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship
Meditation, concepts and de-reification: Investigation of possible links between contemplative and neurocognitive perspectives
Dusana Dorjee
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health

Blog
Can Meditation Change Compassionate Behavior?
Wendy Hasenkamp • April 5, 2013
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Mindfulness


Think Tanks
Interoception and Contemplative Practice
Catherine Kerr, Norman Farb, Wendy Hasenkamp
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Self & Other | Stress & Resilience

2013 Mind & Life Dialogue XXVI
Mind, Brain, and Matter: Critical Conversations Between Buddhist Thought and Science


Varela Grant
The varieties of contemplative experience
Chris Kaplan, Nathan Fisher
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mental Health

Varela Grant
The effect of MBSR on episodic and prospective memory function in aging adults
Robert Goodman
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health

Varela Grant
Neural effects of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in remitted patients with chronic history of depression
Marina Lopez-Sola
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health

Varela Grant
Intrinsic neural characteristics predict the effectiveness of MBSR training on fear extinction and stress reduction
Xiaodan (Diane) Yan
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship
Where’s the Breath? An Interdisciplinary Investigation of Breath Awareness Placement
Harold Roth
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Contemplative Studies Fellowship
Philosophical and historical accounts for the neuroscientific investigation of human spirituality
Franco Fabbro

2012 Mind & Life Dialogue XXIV
Latest Findings in Contemplative Neuroscience

Varela Grant
Can supercharged memory consolidation during sleep boost compassion and pro-sociality?
Jessica Creery

Varela Grant
An investigation of the impact of mindfulness training on the development of attention and working memory in children
Julia Ann Keller
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Education | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Brain mechanisms distinguishing mindfulness meditation-related pain relief from placebo analgesia
Fadel Zeidan
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Effects of open monitoring on visual search: Evidence from eye-tracking, electrophysiology, and phenomenology
Michael Lifshitz

Varela Grant
Exploring the effects of mindfulness meditation on self-control failure
Autumn Wiley
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
EEG spectral signatures of the impact of mindfulness meditation on perceptual-motor awareness and self-agency
Jose Raul Naranjo
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
The neurophenomenology of mindfulness: Metacognitive awareness as a mechanism for adaptive change
Micah Allen
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Do white matter changes contribute to improved fear extinction following mindfulness training?
Britta Hölzel
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

2010 Mind & Life Dialogue XXII
Contemplative Science: The Scientific Study of Contemplative Practice on Human Biology and Behaviour


2010 Mind & Life Dialogue XXI
Mental Training: Impact on Neuronal, Cognitive and Emotional Plasticity
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science

Varela Grant
Hedonic sustainability in the BOLD response to selfish and altruistic rewards
David Perlman
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant
Focused attention versus open monitoring meditation and self-referential brain processing
Rael Baruch Cahn
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Investigating the neural basis of spontaneous thought with real-time fMRI and contemplative mental training
Melissa Ellamil


Varela Grant
The impact of evaluative vs. experiential self-focus on emotional response
Emma Lawrence
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Mindfulness and response inhibition: Behavioral, neural and subjective correlates in smoking cessation
Cecilia Westbrook
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Mindfulness training for parents and children
Jessica Tipsord
Topics: Body-based Practices | Brain & Cognitive Science | Interconnection | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Development of mindfulness-based real-time fMRI neurofeedback for smoking cessation: A preliminary study
Zev Schuman-Olivier
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

2009 Mind & Life Dialogue XVIII
Attention, Memory, and the Mind

Varela Grant
Real-time dynamics of cognitive processing during meditation: A subject-driven fMRI investigation
Wendy Hasenkamp
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
The neural and behavioral correlates of a neurofeedback-based metta meditation training
Susanne Leiberg

Varela Grant
An objective comparison of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for the treatment of insomnia in individuals with cancer using wrist actigraphy: A randomized, non-inferiority trial
Sheila Garland
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant
Meditation and nonlinear neurodynamics: From state to trait
Aviva Berkovich-Ohana
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness


Varela Grant
The interrelationship between cognitive control and affect in an intensive Vipassana retreat
Anthony Zanesco, Brandon King
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness


Varela Grant
Neuropeptide levels in meditation
Elizabeth A. Hoge
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant
Does mindfulness training change the processing of social threat?
Britta Hölzel
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant
Different approaches to emotion regulation: MBSR and CBT in the treatment of anxiety disorders
Joanna Arch
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Neural effects of mindfulness training on adults with ADD
Zev Rosen
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness



Varela Grant
Neural Correlates of PTSD Prevention with MBSR in Iraq Veterans
Sandra DiVitale
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Developing a computational model for meditation using cross cortical synchrony in EEG data
Manish Saggar
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Mind & Life Educational Research Network
Mind & Life Educational Research Network
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Compassion & Empathy | Education | Interconnection

Varela Grant
Mindfulness-based interventions for depression: Possible neurophysiological mechanisms
Willoughby Britton
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Neural effects of mindfulness meditation training on working memory
Adam Safron
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Regulating emotion in social situations: An fMRI study of experienced Buddhist meditators
Deidre Kolarick Reis

Varela Grant
Neural systems supporting interoceptive awareness in experienced and beginning meditators
Sahib Khalsa
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness


Varela Grant
Establishing mindfulness and mind wandering as mediators of patient benefit in MBCT
Durwin Foster
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant
Dissociable neural modes of self-reference and emotion regulation
Norman Farb
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness | Stress & Resilience

Varela Grant
The neurobiology of mindfulness meditation for the control of pain
Joshua Grant
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Mindfulness meditation for reduction of smoking craving: An fMRI investigation
Hilary Tindle
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Investigation of attentional modulation in visual cortex during meditation
Brian Pasley
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Mindfulness-based interventions for depression: Possible neurophysiological mechanisms
Willoughby Britton
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mental Health | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Neural correlates of meta-consciousness events as experienced during Zen meditation practice
Arnaud Delorme
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Contemplative Wisdom | Mindfulness

Varela Grant
Understanding the neural correlates of attention
Ryan Canolty
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness


2004 Mind & Life Dialogue XII
Neuroplasticity: The Neuronal Substrates of Learning and Transformation
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science

2003 Mind & Life Dialogue XI
Exchanges between Buddhism and the Biobehavioral Sciences on How the Mind Works

2002 Mind & Life Dialogue X
The Nature of Matter, The Nature of Life
2001 Mind & Life Dialogue IX
Transformations of Mind, Brain, and Emotion
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Mindfulness

2000 Mind & Life Dialogue VIII
Destructive Emotions
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Stress & Resilience

1998 Mind & Life Dialogue VII
Epistemological Questions in Quantum Physics and Eastern Contemplative Sciences

1992 Mind & Life Dialogue IV
Sleeping, Dreaming and Dying
Topics: Brain & Cognitive Science | Stress & Resilience

1989 Mind & Life Dialogue II
Dialogues Between Buddhism and the Neurosciences
1987 Mind & Life Dialogue I