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Satya Dev Negi, MA, PhDPresident, Director, Teacher and DLM Representative, Drepung Loseling Institute, Atlanta, GA Senior Lecturer, Department of Religion, Emory University| Wednesday, November 4 04:00-05:15 p.m. |
347 - Meditation, Inflammation and Consternation: Applying Ancient Wisdom to Mental Health in the Modern World PD CAM
1.25 credits - Room: Breakers EFKL |
Rakesh Jain, MD, MPH, Director of Psychiatric Drug Research, R/D Clinical Research Center, Lake Jackson, Texas
Satya Dev Negi, MA, PhD, President, Director, Teacher and DLM Representative, Drepung Loseling Institute, Atlanta, GA Senior Lecturer, Department of Religion, Emory University
Charles Raison, MD, Associate Professor
Clinical Director Mind-Body Program
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA
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This is meditation's moment. From the cover of Time Magazine to the coffee table discussions of morning talk shows, meditation has acquired near mythic status both as an avenue to personal fulfillment and as a universal solvent against a dizzying array of diseases, mental and physical. However, despite increasing evidence that meditation may confer health benefits, significant gaps remain in our understanding of how meditation alters mind-body functioning to promote emotional and physical well-being. By providing a state-of-the-art update on what we do and do not know about meditation and meditation and mental health - with a focus on depression - this presentation will provide clinicians with information essential for thinking about how to incorporate meditation into their work with patients. The first talk in this program will provide an overview of research findings regarding mental health benefits of meditation, with a focus on rigorously examining areas of remaining uncertainty. The second talk will drill down deeper into a particular style of meditation - compassion meditation - to explore how this type of meditation may modulate deleterious stress responses relevant to health. The program will conclude with a chance for audience members to get a first hand sense of compassion meditation through a brief guided meditation. At the end of this program, participants should be able to: - Describe the most important unanswered research questions regarding how to best apply meditation to mental illness.
- Describe the different types of meditation practices that appear to offer the most promise as health interventions.
- Describe how meditation practices may improve central nervous system, stress and immune functioning in ways likely to benefit mental and physical disease.
- Describe what is known from the research literature regarding the effect of meditation on depression and anxiety in medically healthy and medically ill individuals.
- Describe strategies for implementing meditation into clinical practice.
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