Video from recent presentations by Catherine Kerr

Video from Dr. Kerr's presentation, Feeling without Awareness. Converging Neuroscientific and Phenomenological Approaches to Acute Suffering: Part II--Neurosciences, to the European Science Foundation Conference on Pain and Suffering, University of Luxembourg, November 2009

Video from Dr. Kerr's presentation, Attending to the Body in Meditation: Cortical Dynamics in a Trial of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, to the Contemplative Studies Inititative, Brown University, October, 2009

International Tai Chi Symposium

Catherine Kerr has joined the Academic Advisory Board of the 2009 International Tai Chi Symposium, to take place at Vanderbilt University in July 2009

Center for Mindfulness Annual Meeting

Catherine Kerr presented on her recent mindfulness study at the Research Symposium associated with Center for Mindfulness' Annual Meeting in Worcester, Massachusetts, Thursday, March 19, 2009 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Tai Chi and Tactile Acuity Presentation

Cathy is presenting her Tai Chi research on tactile acuity Tuesday December 8 at the Asian Medicine and Healing Seminar at the Osher Research Center, Harvard Medical School. Call 617-384-8550 for more information.

Poster presentation of MEG data on mu rhythms at Society for Neuroscience

Our poster on mu rhythms and attention will be presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Washington, DC in November 2008

Christopher Moore in Scientific American

Christopher Moore (McGovern Institute, MIT), the research mentor for much of our group's work, is featured in Scientific American MIND in a long article looking at Dr. Moore's hemo-neural hypothesis (posted 1-30-08). link

Our 2007 Tai Chi study in German newspaper

Our Tai Chi poster presented at the 2007 society for neuroscience in November has been featured in a German newspaper in an article by Vonn Michael Simm. http://www.fr-online.de/in_und_ausland/wissen_und_bildung/aktuell/?cnt=1269334

Anna Wexler featured in the Boston Globe

Our neuroimaging research consultant and collaborator, Anna Wexler, is featured in the Boston Globe for her work as a filmmaker in residence at WGBH. link

RESCHEDULED -- 2 PM December 11, 2007 Phenomenology and Neuroscience presentation

Smadar Bustan, a visiting scholar at Harvard University (Department of Philosophy), will present (with Catherine Kerr as a coauthor) , When phenomenology and neuroscience meet: alexithymia as a paradigmatic case of suffering

RESCHEDULED FOR 2 PM December 11, 2007
Osher Institute, Harvard Medical School
401 Park Dr, Suite 22A, Boston

Call 617-384-8583 for more information.

Mindulness based stress reduction study open now

Our study of mindfulness based stress reduction and brain rhythms is open for recruitment (November 2007).

Poster presentation of Tai Chi data at Society for Neuroscience

Our poster on Tai Chi and tactile acuity was presented by Jessica Shaw at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego in November 2007
tai chi poster.pdf

Presentation at the Society for Acupuncture Research

Jessica Shaw has been selected to give a platform presentation at the Society for Acupuncture Research Annual Meeting in November 2007

Poem to puzzle over
(an occasional feature)

EMILY DICKINSON

THE BRAIN is wider than the sky,
For, put them side by side,
The one the other will include
With ease, and you beside.

The brain is deeper than the sea,
For, hold them, blue to blue,
The one the other will absorb,
As sponges, buckets do.

The brain is just the weight of God,
For, lift them, pound for pound,
And they will differ, if they do,
As syllable from sound.