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The Nature of the Whole, Holism in ancient Greek and Indian Medicine Motilal Barnasidass, New Delhi, 2006 (ISBN 8120827341)
Comparative guide to early western medicine and Hindu models. part of a Indian Medical Traditions series.
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Εγγραφή ή Είσοδος
Αρχαία Μυστικά Θεραπείας
Συγγραφέας: Dian Dincin Buchman, Ph.D.
Εκδόσεις: ETRA
[spoiler]Λίγα λόγια για το βιβλίο
Από τα πανάρχαια χρόνια ο άνθρωπος έψαχνε τα φάρμακά του στη φύση. Πολλές από την αρχαίες θεραπευτικές πρακτικές επιβιώνουν μέχρι τις μέρες μας και δίνουν ανακούφιση με πολύ καλά αποτελέσματα σε πολλές από τις καθημερινές μας ενοχλήσεις.
Από τις διάφορες τεχνικές του μασάζ που συνεχίζουν να εφαρμόζονται μέχρι και τις ημέρες μας από τους θεραπευτές και το τεράστιο εύρος γνώσεων των αρχαίων Αιγυπτίων για τα βότανα και τη φυτοθεραπεία, έως και τα Ευρωπαϊκά λουτρά που μπορεί ο καθένας να εφαρμόσει στο σπίτι του, αυτές και άλλες μορφές θεραπείας είναι συνήθως οι πιο ασφαλείς, οι πιο αποτελεσματικές και οι πιο φτηνές από τις επιλογές που μάς είναι διαθέσιμες.
Στο βιβλίο αυτό παρουσιάζονται εκατοντάδες τέτοιες αρχαίες πρακτικές, καλύπτοντας με αλφαβητική σειρά δεκάδες από τις σύγχρονες ασθένειες. Σε κάθε πάθηση περιλαμβάνονται το λιγότερο 3 και πολύ συχνά πάνω από 10 διαφορετικές πρακτικές θεραπείας. Οι θεραπείες έχουν ενταχθεί σύμφωνα με τον τύπο της θεραπευτικής αγωγής, όπως: Νερό (εμποτισμός, λουτρά), Κίνηση (stretch, γυμναστική, άσκηση), Χέρια (μασάζ και bodyworks), Γη (φυτά και βότανα), Αναπνοή (τεχνικές αναπνοής), Ζώα (τρόφιμα από το ζωικό βασίλειο όπως είναι τα αυγά, το ψάρι, τα έλαια κ.λ.π) και Πνεύμα (διαλογισμός, οραματισμός, διαυγές ονείρεμα). Το βιβλίο αυτό δεν θα πρέπει να λείπει από κανένα σπίτι αφού συνδυάζει την ευκολία στη χρήση με την εμπεριστατωμένη εξειδίκευση, καθώς είναι γραμμένο από έναν από τους ειδικούς στο τομέα της επιστήμης της υγείας.
Λίγα λόγια για την συγγραφέα
Η Dian Dincin Buchman είναι συγγραφέας των βιβλίων: Herbal medicine, ABC's of Natural Beauty, και The complete book of water Therapy. Πρωτοπόρος της εναλλακτικής ιατρικής, συγγραφέας, ακτιβίστρια και πρώην πρόεδρος του American Society of Journalists and Authors.[/spoiler]
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Meditation on Demand
New research reveals how meditation changes the brain
[spoiler]In the fall of 2005, the Dalai Lama gave the inaugural Dialogues between Neuroscience and Society lecture at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, DC. There were over 30,000 neuroscientists registered for the meeting, and it seemed as if most of them attended the talk. The Dalai Lama’s address was designed to highlight the areas of convergence between neuroscience and Buddhist thought about the mind, and to many in the audience he clearly achieved his objective. There was some controversy over his being invited to deliver this lecture insofar as he is both a head of state and a religious leader, and for that reason he largely stuck to his prepared text. But he strayed from the text at least once, reminding the audience that not only was he a Buddhist monk but also an enthusiastic proponent of modern technology.
Elaborating, he shared a confidence with the audience, telling the audience of scientists that meditating was hard work for him (even though he meditates for 4 hours every morning), and that if neuroscientists were able to find a way to put electrodes in his brain and provide him with the same outcome as he gets from meditating, he would be an enthusiastic volunteer. It turns out that a recent set of experiments, from researchers at MIT and Stanford, moves us a step closer to making his wish a reality.
The Dalai Lama’s interest in neuroscience has been reciprocated by at least some members of the neuroscience community. Reasoning that studying the brains of people who meditate might lead to novel insights about the human brain, investigations of long-term meditators has been fertile ground for scientific investigation, with some of the more rigorous work emerging from Richard Davidson’s laboratory at the University of Wisconsin. From the perspective of neuroscience, meditation can be characterized as a series of mental exercises by which one strengthens one’s control over the workings of their own brain. The simplest of these meditation practices is ‘focused attention’ where one concentrates on a single object, for example one’s breath. When expert meditators practiced focused attention meditation, demonstrable changes were seen using fMRI in the networks of the brain that are known to modulate attention. A second set of experiments studied long-term meditators practicing ‘open monitoring meditation’, a more advanced meditation practice which in many ways is a form of metacognition: the objective is not to focus one’s attention but rather to use one’s brain to monitor the universe of mental experience without directing attention to any one task. The unexpected result of this experiment was that the EEG of long-term meditators exhibited much more gamma-synchrony than that of naive meditators. Moreover, normally human brains produce only short bursts of gamma-synchrony. What was most remarkable about this study was that long-term meditators were able to produce sustained gamma-activity in a manner that had never previously been observed in any other human. As such, sustained gamma activity has emerged as a proxy for at least some aspects of the meditative state.
Gamma Waves
But what causes gamma rhythm? And are there any potential benefits of sustained gamma-activity? The strongest hypothesis for the cellular mechanisms underlying generation of the gamma rhythm is that it is due to the activation of fast-spiking interneurons in the cerebral cortex. In two new papers to be published in Nature, the laboratories of Christopher Moore and Li-Huei Tsai at MIT and Karl Deisseroth at Stanford tested this hypothesis directly. The experimenters utilized optogenetics, developing custom-designed viruses to infect only the fast-spiking interneurons of either the prefrontal or barrel cortex in mice with genetically engineered, light-sensitive cation channels. Then, they inserted fine optical fibers into the relevant region of the cortex, allowing light to be delivered to the infected neurons and thereby activating only the fast-spiking interneurons. (In essence, this allowed them to switch particular brain cells on and off.) In both experiments, selectively stimulating the fast-spiking interneurons evoked gamma oscillations, thereby confirming the hypothesis that these neurons drive the gamma rhythm[/spoiler]
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Research on Transcendental Meditation
More than 600 scientific studies verifying the wide-ranging benefits of the Transcendental Meditation technique have been conducted at 250 independent universities and medical schools in 33 countries during the past 40 years.
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The Scientific Study of Dreams: Neural Networks, Cognitive Development, and Content Analysis
[spoiler]The Scientific Study of Dreams presents a new neurocognitive model of dreams that draws from empirical research to explain better the process of dreaming and the nature of dream content. Until now, dream studies have been limited in their usefulness, but recent advances in neuroscience, dream content analysis, cognitive linguistics, statistics, and computer software have made it possible to revitalize this area of research with the use of scientific methods.
Domhoff's neurocognitive model helps explain the neural and cognitive bases for dreaming. He discusses how dreams express conceptions and concerns, and how they are consistent over years and decades. He also shows that there may be limits to understanding the meaning of dreams as there are many aspects of dream content that cannot be related to waking cognition or personal concerns. In addition, the book includes a detailed explanation of the methods needed to test the new model as well as a case study of a comprehensive dream journal. Particularly valuable is a discussion of a new system of content analysis that can be used for highly sophisticated studies of dream content. In this provocative book, Domhoff sets forth a convincing argument that will encourage a resurgence in dream research among both new and established cognitive psychologists and neuropsychologists.[/spoiler]
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