Background papers for Stirling Workshop June 11-12, 2004

Buddhist inspired Models of the Mind

Barendregt

Slides The Cover-up Model of the Mind
Papers Buddhist Phenomenology
  Mysticims and Beyond, Buddhist Phenomenology (Part II)
  The ancient theory of mind
  Reflection and its use: from science to meditation
Posters The cover-up model of the mind
  Opioids and morphine in the brain

Blackmore

Books Consciousness: An Introduction (2003)
  The Meme Machine (1999)
Papers There is no stream of consciousness
 

Waking from the Meme Dream
  Zen papers

Giommi

Book Z. Segal, M. Williams, J. Teasdale (2002)
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression:
a New Approach to Preventing Relapse. New York, The Guilford Press.
Papers S.H. Ma & J. Teasdale Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: Replication and Exploration of Differential Relapse Prevention Effects
  Kabat-Zinn, J. Mindfulness-Based Interventions in Context: Past, Present, and Future

Lachaux

Slides What can Electrophysiology (and Brain Rythms) tell us about ‘Meditation'?
Papers From homepage Lachaux

Lehmann

Posters EEG Microstates are shortened in Schizophrenia
  Frequency domain EEG source locations during arm levitation under hypnosis: a pilot study
  EEG coherency computed from scalp data and from LORETA model sources
  Syntax of EEG microstates in first episode, acute, medication-naïve schizophrenics
  Scalp and intracerebral (LORETA) theta and gamma EEG coherence in meditation
Papers Brain electric microstates and momentary conscious mind states as building blocks of spontaneous thinking:I. Visual imagery and abstract thoughts
 

Brain sources of EEG gamma frequency during volitionally meditation-induced,
altered states of consciousness, and experience of the self
Pre-publication EEG microstate duration and syntax in acute, medication-naïve,
first-episode schizophrenia: a multi-center study
Short movies 'Atoms' in brain activity colour or black and white (giving better view of discrete behaviour)

Lutz

Papers From homepage Lutz
 

F.J. Varela The Specious Present: A Neurophenomenology of Time Consciousness in: Naturalizing Phenomenology: Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology and Cognitive Science
Edited by Jean, Petitot, Francisco J. Varela, Bernard Pachoud abd Jean-Michel Roy
Stanford University Press, Stanford. Chapter 9, pp.266-329

McLellan-Brown

Papers Carlson, L.E.; Speca, M.; Patel, K.D. and Goodey, E (2004) Mindfulness-based
reduction in relation to quality of life, mood, symptoms of stress and
levels of cortisol, dehdroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEAS) and melatonin in
breast and prostate cancer outpatients, Psychoendoneuroendocrinology, 29, 448-474.
  Mills, N. and Allen, J. (2000) Mindfulness of Movement as a Coping Strategy
in Multiple Sclerosis: A Pilot Study, General Hospital Psychiatry, 22, 425-431.
  McMillan T; Robertson, I.H.; Brock, D. and Chorlton, L. (2002) Brief
Mindfulness training for attentional problems after traumatic brain injury:
A randomised control treatment trial, 12 (2), 117-125

Phillips

Paper Convergence of biological and psychological perspectives on cognitive coordination in schizophrenia

Thompson

Slides Empathy and Compassion
Papers Empathy and Human Experience
  From homepage Thompson

Tinge

Book Kabat-Zinn, J. Full Catastrophe Living, Using the wisdom of your body and
mind to face stress, pain and illness, Delta 1990, ISBN 0-385-30312-2
Papers Kabat-Zinn, J., Lipworth, L., Burney, R. and Sellers, W. Four year
follow-up of a meditation based program for the self-regulation of chronic
pain: Treatment outcomes and compliance, Clinical Journal of Pain, 1987, 2 :159 - 173.
  Kabat-Zinn, J. Mindfulness Meditation, What It Is, What It Isn't, and Its
Role in Health Care and Medicine, in: Haruki, Y., Ishii, Y., and Suzuki, M.
Comparative and Psychological Study on Meditation, Eburon, Delft Netherlands, 1996.
  Kabat-Zinn, J., Massion A.O., Kristeller J., Peterson L.G., Fletcher K.,
Pbert L., Linderking W., Santorelli S.F. Effectiveness of a
meditation-based stress reduction program in the treatment of anxiety
disorders, American Journal of Psychiatry, 1992, 149 : 936 - 943.

van Waning

Slides On avoiding and embracing our pain: Buddhist psychological and Western psychotherapeutical approaches to defensive conditioning
Papers Davidson, R.J., Irwin, W. (1999). The functional neuroanatomy of emotion
and affective style. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 3, no 1, 11-21.
 

Walsh, R. (1996). Toward a psychology of human and ecological survival:
psychological approaches to contemporary global threats. In B.W. Scotton,
A.B. Chinen, J.R. Battista (eds.) Textbook of transperonal psychiatry and psychology. New York: Basic Books, 396-405.
  van Waning, A. (2002). A mindful self and beyond - sharing in the ongoing
dialogue of Buddhism and psychoanalysis. In P. Young-Eisendrath and S.
Muramoto (eds.) Awakening and insight - Zen Buddhism and Psychotherapy. New
York: Brunner-Routledge, 93-105.