~~~~~~ EEG ALERT ~ Week of November 17th, 2003 ~~~~~~~~~~

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Cerebral blood flow during meditative prayer

Verbal meditation by Franciscan nuns was compared to Buddhist (visualization)
meditators. Verbal meditation scans showed increased blood flow in the
prefrontal cortex, inferior parietal and inferior frontal lobes.
More info:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list\
_uids=14620252
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The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain
by Louis Cozolino

Argues that an understanding of neural functioning can aid psychotherapeutic
clinicians in their practice.
More info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393703673/top100
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Cortical Mechanisms of Feature-based Attentional Control.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14615298

Complex independent component analysis of frequency-domain EEG data.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14622887

Cerebral blood flow during meditative prayer
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14620252

Continuous or emergent EEG
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14615839

Anticipatory cortico-cortical interactions
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14618284

EEG alpha desynchronization in musicians and nonmusicians in response to changes
in melody, tempo, and key in classical music.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14620240

Event-related brain potential changes after Choto-san administration in stroke
patients with mild cognitive impairments.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14615873

Forensic Neuropsychology
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14609579

Probing conformational changes in neurotransmitter transporters
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14612133

Challenging dogma in neuropsychology and related disciplines.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14609578

A friendly critique of neuropsychology
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14609580

Behavioral and Neurofunctional Changes Over Time in Healthy and Aphasic
Subjects. A PET Language Activation Study.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14615626

Towards a formalization of disease-specific ontologies for neuroinformatics.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14622884

Feelings of relation in the fringe of consciousness
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14608553

Morphological neuroimaging of malformations of cortical development.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14617422

Inter-rater reliability and concurrent validity of walking speed measurement
after traumatic brain injury.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14606745

Functional neuroimaging of malformations of cortical development.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=14617424

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