Introduction: a confluence of streams and a flowering of possibilities -- Session 1 Meditation-based clinical interventions: science, practice, and implementation -- How Buddhist meditative practices can inform our understanding of pain and suffering, the potential for healing, the relief of suffering, and the underlying nature of the human mind and body / Ajahn Amaro -- Some clinical applications of mindfulness meditation in medicine and psychiatry: the case of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) / Jon Kabat-Zinn -- Mind-brain-body interaction and meditation / Richard J. Davidson -- Session 1 dialogue -- Session 2 possible biological substrates of meditation -- Synchronization of brain rhythms as a possible mechanism for the unification of distributed mental processes / Wolf Singer -- The neurobiology of the adaptive and deleterious features of stress / Robert Sapolsky -- Session 2 dialogue -- Session 3 Clinical research 1: meditation and mental health -- Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and the Prevention of Relapse in Recurrent Depression / Zindel Segal -- Paths to Recovery: Neural Substrates of Cognitive and Mindfulness-Based Interventions for the Treatment of Depression / Helen Mayberg -- Session 3 Dialogue -- Interlude Preceding Session 4 -- The Buddhist Science of Human Flourishing / Alan Wallace -- Interlude Dialogue -- Session 4 Clinical Research 2: Meditation and Physical Health -- Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Cardiovascular Disease / David Sheps -- Neural-Immune Interaction / John Sheridan -- Session 4 Dialogue -- Session 5 Integration and Final Reflections -- Meditation and the Future of Health Care / Ralph Snyderman -- Some Reflections on the Evolution and Nature of Mind and Self and Their Implications for Humanity / Wolf Singer -- Session 5 Dialogue.
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