Contemplative Neuroscience

ResilientWoman

There's quite a bit of research going on by renowned neuroscientists into Social Anxiety Disorders, Depression, etc. I am really excited that the friends/geeks I know who suffer from such are getting a science-based cure that is easy, cost affective (free) and has such a high return on investment.

Philippe Goldin is a research scientist and heads the Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience group in the Department of Psychology at Stanford University.

He spent 6 years in India and Nepal studying various languages, Buddhist philosophy and debate at Namgyal Monastery and the Dialectic Monastic Institute, and serving as an interpreter for various Tibetan Buddhist lamas. He then returned to the U.S. to complete a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Rutgers University. His NIH-funded clinical research focuses on (a) functional neuroimaging investigations of cognitive-affective mechanisms in adults with anxiety disorders, (b) comparing the effects of mindfulness meditation and cognitive-behavioral therapy on brain-behavior correlates of emotional reactivity and regulation, and (c) training children in family and elementary school settings in mindfulness skills to reduce anxiety and enhance compassion, self-esteem and quality of family interactions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf6Q0G1iHBI

Brain functionality is sexy.

mruntidy

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Brain functionality is sexy.
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Anything else is just plain necrophilia