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"The Neurobiology of Interconnection" with Daniel Siegel (sample)
Dr. Siegel is the co-editor of a handbook of psychiatry and the author of numerous articles, chapters, and the internationally acclaimed text, The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2009-01-14
- 00:03:00
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"The Biology and Sociology of Good and Evil" with Van Jones and Thomas Lewis
Psychiatrist Thomas Lewis, who has studied the neurobiology of emotion, and human rights activist and lawyer, Van Jones present two perspectives on understanding good and evil. Is our perception of good and evil biologically or culturally based?
- Audio Lectures
- 2005-12-02
- 01:01:06
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"Brain Functioning" with Fred Travis
This presentation centers around two points: 1) The brain processes in-group and out-group experiences differently. Different styles of brain functioning are also seen when considering facts about other paradigms and ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-03-16
- 00:59:02
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Ontology of Consciousness
Percipient Action
In Ontology of Consciousness, scholars from a range of disciplines—from neurophysiology to parapsychology, from mathematics to anthropology and indigenous non-Western modes of thought—go beyond these limits of current neuroscience research to explore insights offered by other intellectual approaches to consciousness.
- Publications Books
- April 30, 2008
- 656 pages
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"Science of Spiritual Transformation" with Solomon Katz
In this teleseminar, host Cassandra Vieten talks with anthropologist, professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and former board president of Metanexus Institute, Dr. Solomon Katz. Their dialogue explores some of the findings from the Metanexus Institute's Spiritual Transformation Scientific Research Program ...
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-07-08
- 01:07:24
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Harris L. Friedman, PhD
Friedman is a research professor of psychology at University of Florida and a practicing clinical and organizational psychologist. He is currently president of the International Transpersonal Association.
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Daniel Siegel, MD
Dr. Siegel is currently an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine, where he is on the faculty of the Center for Culture, Brain, and Development. He is also the director of the Center for Human Development.
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Garret Yount, PhD
Garret Yount earned a B.S. in Molecular and Cell Biology from the Pennsylvania State University and a Ph.D. in Neurobiology and Behavior from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. During his postdoctoral training at the University of California, San Francisco, he was awarded a fellowship from the Robert Steel Foundation for Pediatric Neuro-Oncology. Dr. Yount currently directs a molecular biology laboratory at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute in San Francisco where he has established a track record in obtaining research funding from both federal and private agencies, including the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense. His laboratory focuses on understanding the genetic mechanisms underlying cancer therapeutics. He has also collaborated with an interdisciplinary team to develop a proposal calling for an international project integrating modern genomics with the perspectives emerging within the Neurosciences regarding the mind-body connection. Dr. Yount serves as a Scientific Advisor to various federal agencies, including the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine and as a scientific reviewer for numerous biomedical journals, including Cancer Research, The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, and The Journal of Consciousness Studies
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Erich Jarvis
Erich Jarvis is a neurobiologist at Duke University Medical Center. He heads a team of researchers in the field of vocal communication. The Jarvis Lab's research of songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds sheds light on how the brain is able to learn the behavior of sound. Jarvis's work on bird brains may have applications to the treatment speech problems in humans, such as stuttering. In October 2005, Dr. Jarvis won the National Institutes of Health's Director's Pioneer Award, which provides $500,000 per year for five years to researchers pursuing innovative approaches to biomedical research.
Dr. Jarvis' laboratory studies the neurobiology of vocal communication. Emphasis is placed on the molecular pathways involved in the perception and production of learned vocalizations. We use an integrative approach that combines behavioral, anatomical and molecular biological techniques. The main animal model used is songbirds, one of the few vertebrate groups that evolved the ability to learn their vocalizations. The generality of the discoveries is tested in other vocal learning orders, such as parrots and hummingbirds, as well as non-vocal learners, such as pigeons and non-human primates.
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Bernard Baars
Bernard J. Baars is a former Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at The Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, CA., and is currently an Affiliated Fellow there. He is best known as the originator of the global workspace theory, a theory of human cognitive architecture and consciousness. He previously served as a professor of psychology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook where he conducted research into the causation of human errors and the Freudian slip, and as a faculty member at the Wright Institute.
Baars co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, and the Academic Press journal Consciousness & Cognition: an International Journal, the latter with William P. Banks.
In addition to research on global workspace theory with Professor Stan Franklin and others, Baars is working to re-introduce the topic of the conscious brain into the standard college and graduate school curriculum, by writing college textbooks and general audience books, web teaching, advanced seminars and course videos. Baars has also published on animal consciousness, volition, and feelings of knowing, and is currently working on an approach to "higher" states, as defined in the meditation traditions. New brain recording methods continue to reveal unexpected evidence on those topics.
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Research/Meditation Bibliography/Meditation Research
Meditation Research Photo by campra The practice of meditation is believed to have existed before written history, and was typically situated within a set of religious beliefs and frameworks. Meditation ... -
About/Case Studies/Mind-Body Medicine
IONS Returns Consciousness to Healing: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Medicine, and the Birth of Psychoneuroimmunology “Civilized” Medicine Dismisses Mind/Soul For thousands of years, traditional, indigenous, and Eastern medical traditions integrated ... -
Stanley Krippner, PhD
Krippner, professor of psychology at Saybrook Graduate School, San Francisco, is a Fellow in three APA divisions, and former president of two divisions (30 and 32). Krippner has conducted workshops and seminars on dreams and/or hypnosis around the world.
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Cultivating Social Consciousness
What does it mean to be part of a greater whole? How does our worldview, or model of reality, impact what we understand about who we are and how we relate to others? And how can we become more aware of all the ways we are part of an interrelated, global community?
- Collective Intelligence
- Worldview
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The Science of Transformation
In the following dialogue, excerpted and adapted from the Institute of Noetic Sciences’ teleseminar series, “The Essentials of Noetic Science,” IONS Director of Research Cassandra Vieten talks with psychiatrist-educator-writer Dan Siegel about Mindsight – the ability of the human mind to see itself – and how that relates to transformation.
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The Science of Peace
- Principal Investigators
- Cassandra Vieten, PhD, LeVar Burton
- Key Collaborators
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This project proposes a comprehensive strategy to form a new multidisciplinary “science of peace.”