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| Cognitive Neuroscience of Mindfulness Meditation |
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Google Tech Talks
February, 28 2008
ABSTRACT
Mindfulness meditation, one type of meditation
technique, has been shown to
enhance emotional awareness and psychological
flexibility as well as induce
well-being and emotional balance. Scientists have
also begun to examine how
meditation may influence brain functions. This
talk will examine the
effect of mindfulness meditation practice on the
brain systems in which
psychological functions such as attention,
emotional reactivity, emotion
regulation, and self-view are instantiated. We
will also discuss how
different forms of meditation practices are being
studied using
neuroscientific technologies and are being
integrated into clinical
practice to address symptoms of anxiety,
depression, and stress.
Speaker: Philippe Goldin
Philippe 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.
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| The Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience of Categorization, Novelty-Detec... |
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Google Tech Talks
November, 15 2007
ABSTRACT
Neurocomputational models provide fundamental
insights towards
understanding the human brain circuits for
learning new associations
and organizing our world into appropriate
categories. In this talk I
will review the information-processing functions
of four interacting
brain systems for learning and categorization:
(1) the basal ganglia which incrementally adjusts
choice behaviors using environmental
feedback about the consequences of our actions,
(2) the hippocampus which supports learning in
other brain regions through the creation of
new stimulus representations (and, hence, new
similarity
relationships) that reflect important statistical
regularities in the
environment,
(3) the medial septum which works in a
feedback-loop with
the hippocampus, using novelty-detection to alter
the rate at which
stimulus representations are updated through
experience,
(4) the frontal lobes which provide for selective
attention and executive
control of learning and memory.
The computational models to be described have been
evaluated through a variety of empirical
methodoligies including human functional brain
imaging, studies of
patients with localized brain damage due to injury
or early-stage
neurodegenerative diseases, behavioral genetic
studies of
naturally-occuring individual variability, as well
as comparative
lesion and genetic studies with rodents. Our
applications of these
models to engineering and computer science
including automated anomaly
detection systems for mechanical fault diagnosis
on US Navy
helicopters and submarines as well more recent
contributions to the
DoD's DARPA program for Biologically Inspired
Cognitive Architectures
(BICA).
Speaker: Dr. Mark Gluck
Mark Gluck is a Professor of Neuroscience at
Rutgers University - Newark, co-director of the
Rutgers Memory Disorders Project, and publisher of
the public health newsletter, Memory Loss and the
Brain. He works at the interface between
neuroscience, psychology, and computer science,
where his research focuses on the neural bases of
learning and memory, and the consequences of
memory loss due to aging, trauma, and disease. He
is the co-author of "Gateway to Memory: An
Introduction to Neural Network Models of the
Hippocampus and Memory " (MIT Press, 2001) and a
forthcoming undergraduate textbook, "Learning and
Memory: From Brain to Behavior." He has edited
several other books and has published over 60
scientific journal articles. His awards include
the Distinguished Scientific Award for Early
Career Contributions from the American
Psychological Society and the Young Investigator
Award for Cognitive and Neural Sciences from the
Office of Naval Research. In 1996, he was awarded
a NSF Presidential Early Career Award for
Scientists and Engineers by President Bill
Clinton. For more information, see
http://www.gluck.edu.
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Durée : 3733 s |
| Wings to Freedom: Himalayan Yoga Neuroscience & Astrophysics |
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Purchase the full length film here:
http://www.i-alight.com/cgi-bin/mivavm?Merchant2/m
erchant.mvc+Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=ANPAP&Category_
Code=DVD01
Wings to Freedom
Mystic Revelations from Babaji and the Himalayan
Yogis
There never has been, nor will be, a time when
man's own nature shall cease to demand his
foremost attention. The evolution of human
consciousness is the most comprehensive enterprise
ever undertaken by mankind, besides which the
greatest of human achievements pale into
insignificance.
In the quiet spaces of our lives we often wonder:
Where did we come from? Where do we go after
death? Who are we and why are we here?
Meditating Yogis realized that the answers lay
within the depths of one's own consciousness,
unlocked by the key of breath and the Science of
Yoga.
Join award winning documentary film makers Som and
Rita Bakshi as they follow the path of a yogi's
mystic journey through the Himalayas.
The film captures candid moments as Gurunath
illumines us on man's timeless questions against
the breathtaking high-altitude scenery, glacial
rivers, and caves hallowed by Ancient Sages. A
unique feast for the eyes and the intellect
unfolds as the Yogi's experiences and in-depth
revelations come to life.
Featuring Yogiraj Gurunath Siddhanath, a living
Kriya Kundalini Solar master.
"To transmute the minds of sincere seekers of yoga
into a higher state
of consciousness is the purpose of my work." --
Siddhanath
If earth peace is to herald the dawn of the new
age, we must all realize:
Humanity is one's only religion,
Breath one's only prayer, and
Consciousness one's only God.
Evolution of the Human Brain:
In the center of the human brain, there is a
miniature cave of Brahma. This cave of Brahma is
the 3rd ventricle.
In the human brain lies the corpus callosum.
Connected to the corpus callosum is the Hamsa
swan.
Since eons yogis have reported seeing a Hamsa
during meditation. Now in the 3rd eye center there
is the agya chakra, called the "shiva netra", the
eye of shiva. The Hamsanath yogi sees the shiva
netra, which is just in front of the cave of
Brahma.
Within the center of the 3rd eye is the
scintillating white star called the kutastha
chaitanya. When the yogi by constant years of
meditation, penetrates the star—he is already in
the no mind state, the "unmani avasta" a state of
bhav samadhi, sabikalpa samadhi. —he penetrates
the star and enters into a state of nirvikalpa
samadhi! And now this lofty soul, radiant in his
splendor, rests with his pranic spiritual energy
in the ventricles of the Hamsa swan, which are the
lateral ventricles in the brain. The evolution of
human consciousness is still going on, as the
human brain develops, vaster and more beautiful,
the texture refines. The 100 billion cells in the
human brain are uniting with the 100 billion stars
in our galactic system, and they go beyond the
galactic system into the wonderful state of
supernal splendor of niranjan nirvana, kaivalya
samadhi, the Nirvana.
His physical brain and body cannot take it much,
but the ultimate stage is that the corona radiata
in his brain cells, these subtle fibers, these
tubes, light up with a divine effulgence. This
radiant splendor goes and spreads in its aura far
beyond the earth system, way into the galaxies.
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Durée : 658 s |
| From Cognitive Neuroscience to Computing Architectures |
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Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science
University Professor Professor of Biological
Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Electrical
Engineering, Neuroscience and Psychology Director,
USC Brain Project
Research Topics
Computational and cognitive neuroscience
Mirror neurons and action recognition
Brain mechanisms of language and their evolution
Epistemology
Neural networks
Simulation
Schema theory
Neuroinformatics
Research Overview
The thrust of Michael Arbib's work is expressed in
the title of his first book, Brains, Machines and
Mathematics (McGraw-Hill, 1964). The brain is not
a computer in the current technological sense, but
he has based his career on the argument that we
can learn much about machines from studying
brains, and much about brains from studying
machines. He has thus always worked for an
interdisciplinary environment in which computer
scientists and engineers can talk to
neuroscientists and cognitive scientists.
His primary research focus is on the coordination
of perception and action. This is tackled at two
levels: via schema theory, which is applicable
both in top-down analyses of brain function and
human cognition as well as in studies of machine
vision and robotics; and through the detailed
analysis of neural networks, working closely with
the experimental findings of neuroscientists on
humans and monkeys. He is also engaged in research
on the evolution of brain mechanisms for human
language, pursuing the Mirror System Hypothesis
that links language parity (the fact that what the
speaker intends is roughly what the hearer
understands) to the properties of the mirror
system for grasping -- neurons active for both the
execution and observation of actions -- to explain
(amongst many other things) why human brains can
acquire sign language as readily as speech.
The author or editor of almost 40 books, Arbib has
most recently edited "Who Needs Emotions? The
Brain Meets the Robot" (with Jean-Marc Fellous,
Oxford University Press, 2005) and "From Action to
Language via the Mirror System" (Cambridge
University Press, 2006).
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| Issues in Neuroscience: Social Disabilities. |
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Sort of follows on from Neurodiversity. I define
the concept of social disability as how I see it,
and talk about my opinions on it. A social
disability, in my eyes, is a trait that causes
problems due to the society we live in, but if we
weren't social animals, and lived alone, wouldn't
cause any problem.
Some examples I talk about are:
- Mutism and deafness
- Autism
- Tourette syndrome
- Friedreich's ataxia
Also, what can you do is helping people with
social disabilities? But also, how can strange
behaviours of a few people affect everyone else
around them, or you, personally? Can you help it
but to judge others, and do you really mean to
cause harm? Bleh, society is complicated!
http://www.youtube.com/itsabrainthing - It's a
brain thing, by Dr. Henley. The aim is to fight
stigma for brain conditions. One that really got
me thinking was the 'addictions' video. Think
about how much some of us look down on those with
drug and alcohol addictions. Is it really their
choice?
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Durée : 939 s |
| Arts and Cognitive Neuroscience |
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Experiences in which the senses are intermingled
in usual ways are a common motif in the
descriptions that mystics provide of their
unordinary sensory experiences. This workshop
examines the phenomenon of synaesthesia from a
multi-disciplinary perspective in order to advance
our understanding of the relationship between
synaesthesia, metaphor, creativity, and religious
and artistic practices. Series: "Humanitas"
[4/2008] [Humanities] [Show ID: 13189]
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Durée : 3261 s |
| Richard Restak - Neuroscience and Advertising |
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Complete program at:
http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=448
Acclaimed neurologist Richard Restak discusses
ways in which advertisers may potentially use
neuroscientific research to sell products.
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Richard Restak on "The Naked Brain."
Each time neuropsychiatrist Restak visits with a
new book, we learn more about the exciting
findings being made in neurology. In his new book,
Restak writes about "social neuroscience," the
interaction between our brains' hard wiring and
our social relationships. - Politics and Prose
Dr. Richard Restak is a practicing neurologist and
neuropsychiatrist and the author of dozens of
articles and more than 15 books on the brain,
including "The Brain," "Mysteries of the Mind,"
and "The Longevity Strategy." "The Brain," also a
companion book to a PBS series, was a national
bestseller. Restak has appeared on National Public
Radio's Morning Edition and All Things Considered,
PBS's McNeil-Lehrer Report, NBC's Today Show,
ABC's Good Morning America, and the Discovery
Channel. Restak has served on various national
advisory councils for brain research and has been
a consultant to PBS and to NBC's Today Show. Dr.
Restak is a graduate of Georgetown University
School of Medicine.
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Durée : 287 s |
| Panelist: Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UCB |
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Anthony J. Bell Ph.D.
Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience
UC Berkeley
My interest in 2007 is:-
To unify ideas from probabilistic unsupervised
machine learning with the cross-level information
flows that occur in the biological hierarchy. The
idea is that macroscopic variables can use
microscopic variables to store information. You
might not realise it but this sentence you are
reading is changing your gene expression (your
genes heard it here first!) I am demonstrating
this concept with new learning algorithms,
focusing on synaptic learning phenomena such as
spike timing-dependent plasticity (STDP), and on
systems of kinetic equations inspired by the
processes that govern the flow of information
inside a cell (for example ion channel and enzyme
kinetics).
In the process, I am creating dynamic signal
processing algorithms with new properties. I hope
they will be powerful.
I know this requires some explanation. I need to
completely revamp my web-presence, and I hope to
do so soon, along with papers explaining this
idea. My old page, at the Salk Institute, is quite
out-of-date, but contains some useful material.
http://redwood.berkeley.edu/wiki/Tony_Bell
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