01/20/10 – Tucker Peck -- Mindfulness Meditation and Insomnia: A Review of the Current Science
02/03/10 – Dr. Bonnie G Colby -- Measuring Meditation Effectiveness: What Is "Effectiveness"? Can It Be Systematically Assessed?
02/17/10 – Adam Lester -- The Neurophysiology of Meditation- A review of contemporary neuro and psychophysiological research on meditation.
03/03/10 – Dr. Al Kaszniak -- The Self and Selflessness in Buddhism and Neuroscience
03/10/10 – Guest Speaker Dr. Donese Worden of Arizona State University -- Meditation and Frequency Medicine
03/24/10 – Dr. John Culadasa Yates -- An Analysis of the Relationship between Science and Meditation UPDATE: THIS PRESENTATION WAS CANCELED DUE TO CAR TROUBLE AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN THE FALL.
04/01/10 (Thursday) – Guest Speaker Jordan Quaglia of Naropa University -- First-Person and Scientific Perspectives on Contemplative Training for Psychotherapists
04/14/10 – Guest Speakers Dr. Willoughby Britton and Matthew Sacchet of Brown University -- Perspectives on Brown University's Contemplative Studies Initiative and Dr. Willoughby Britton's Contemplative Neuroscience Lab
04/28/10 – Dev Ashish -- The Neural Mechanisms by which Meditation Alleviates Depression
Recent Announcements
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Two AMRIG Researchers Recieve the Varela Award Meditation Research Grant
Roisin O'Donnell and Tucker Peck from the University of Arizona Clinical
Psychology Ph.D. Program were both awarded separate Varela Awards, a research
grant from the Mind and Life Institute, for the maximum amount of funding.
Between the two of them, they now have $30,000 to go towards meditation
research in the UA Psychology Department!
Posted Jan 22, 2010 9:11 AM by Adam Lester
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AMRIG on YouTube!
Starting with the 12/2/09 Parallel Paths presentation, all AMRIG presentations will now be posted on YouTube! Our YouTube channel is AZMeditationResearch, and you can find a playlist for the Parallel Paths presentation at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=6104FF94D13F6C59.
Posted Dec 14, 2009 8:25 PM by Tucker Peck
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Expanding The Meditation Research Spreadsheet
There are now four undergraduate RA's in the Sleep Lab who are helping catalog meditation research into a spreadsheet (you can access a version of this spreadsheet through our website). If you are a researcher with lots of meditation studies on your hard drive, please let us know, and we can give these studies to the RA's to comb through and add to our spreadsheet.
Posted Oct 5, 2009 1:05 PM by Adam Lester
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AMRIG In The News
Tucker Peck
has been interviewed by the Arizona Wildcat, discussing the development and
mission of AMRIG. Click this link to see a full article from the Arizona Wildcat
about AMRIG. http://wildcat.arizona.edu/news/meditating-toward-health-1.528363.
Posted Oct 1, 2009 9:53 PM by Adam Lester
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Shinzen Young To Present At AMRIG
Shinzen Young, considered by many to be one of the most well known and influential western meditation teachers of the day, has agreed to present a talk at AMRIG. He is scheduled to give an extended four hour presentation on Sunday, November 1, from 10 AM to 2 PM. The format of the talk is likely to focus about 1/3 of the time on meditation practice and 2/3 on conceptual and scientific areas. For more information please take a look at the flier.In the meantime, to learn more about Shinzen, you can visit his website, shinzen.org. He also recommends any of the 100+ videos on his YouTube channel (ExpandContract) and his interview on the website BuddhistGeeks ...
Posted Oct 5, 2009 3:17 PM by Adam Lester
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