Expert Meeting

Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality II 2010

February, 25th – 27th, 2010, Freiburg, Schloss Reinach in Munzingen, Germany

Program and presentations

Here you can download the program and the list of participants.

Click here to read a Conference Report by Robert K.C. Forman in the Journal of Consciousness Studies.

The presentations given at this meeting can be downloaded underneath.

Stefan Schmidt: Setting the Scene – The Science of Meditation

B. Alan Wallace: Toward a Three-Dimensional Science of the Mind

Antoine Lutz: Mechanisms of Mindfulness Training

Guiseppe Pagnoni: "Thinking About Not-thinking": Making Sense of Zen Meditation Through the Practice of Neuroimaging

Britta Hölzel: Meditation Practice Leads to Increases in Regional Brain Gray Matter Density

Thilo Hinterberger: Monitoring of Brain States During Meditation in Practitioners from Various Traditions: Methods and Results

Ulrich Ott: Year one of the Timeless Wisdom Training: An EEG/fMRI pre-post study

Jonathan Shear: Meditation Research as a Field: Real Promise, and Real Problems

Anne Runehov: God, the Mind and the Brain

Al Kaszniak: Emotion Response and Regulation in Long-Term Zen and Vipassana Meditators

Norman Farb: Mindfulness Training and the Neural Basis of the Self

Shihui Han: How Do Religious Belief and Practice Influence Self Reflective Thinking? Brain Imaging Investigations

John Ives: Does Neuroimaging Provide Evidence of Meditation-Mediated Neuroplasticity?

Perrine Ruby: What Did We Learn About the "Self" with Neuroimaging Tech-niques (PET and fMRI)?

James Austin: The Meditation Approach to Awaken Selfless Insight