11+Projects

=Strategie= toc

**Topics**

 * 1) Relaxation (Brennan, Gail, Deborah, Antoni, Neil)
 * 2) Meditation (Brennan, Gail, Deborah, Antoni, Neil)
 * 3) HIV (Gail, Deborah, Kathy)
 * 4) Depression
 * 5) Chronic Stress
 * 6) Psychoneuroimmunology
 * 7) Gender/Women
 * 8) Healing
 * 9) Spirituality/Transformative Experience
 * 10) Compassionate Love
 * 11) Decision Making
 * 12) Q-EEG
 * 13) Neurofeedback
 * 14) PTSD

**Barbara Brennan (Effect: Depression)**
Research idea: Patients who are not able to relax when exposed to stressors suffer from chronic stress. Chronic stress in turn triggers the HPA axis resulting in a dysbalance between Cortisol and DHEA as well as an over-activation of the sympathetic nervous system. A chronic change in the pattern of neurotransmitters leads to depressive symptoms. Healing operates with deep states of meditation of the healer that induces a state of relaxation in the patient. Healing has an effect on depression via deep relaxation. Relaxation alleviates depression. Psychological measures: · CES-D · Perceived Stress Scale · Ways of Coping Scale · Interviews on perceived depression, perceived stress, perceived ability to cope Neurological measures (Q-EEG): · Meditative state of the healer indicated by theta/alpha ratio and · Relaxation state of the patient and healer indicated by beta 1/beta 3 ratio · Compassionate love/state of connectedness of the healer indicated by increase in gamma and gamma coherence · Depression of the patient indicated by frontal reversal of alpha (left alpha higher than right) and frontal beta 2 reversal (left beta 2 lower than right) · Chronic stress of the patient indicated by beta 3 higher than beta 2 and beta 2 higher than beta 1. This ratio does not improve even though the patient tries to relax. Biochemical measure: · Collection of hair for Cortisol analysis. Cortisol hair analysis is a physiological measure of stress over the past 6 month. In case funding is available, the samples can be analyzed later.

**Gail Ironson**
Needs to check with Neil for Post Doc positions available and to talk to Rod about potential of employment in Department of Psychology.

**Kathy Anastos**
Neurofeedback equipment is now cheap. We could try efficacy and train people in neurofeedback so that large numbers of patients can be treated. Explain H1 B visa issues and ask if she would be prepared to hire a Post Doc. Ask if she has $50,000 funds available. This way, we could turn Rwanda in a long-term sustainable project.

**Deborah Jones & Steven Weiss**
Explain situation. Ask if they can create a Post Doc position. Suggest self-funded research on women with HIV with depression in their clinic with neurofeedback (same study as in Rwanda) or even fund us to write about the Rwanda study.

**Neil Schneiderman**
Explain situation via Gail. Ask if he can create a Post Doc position on the medical campus. Suggest self-funded research on women with HIV with depression in their clinic with neurofeedback (same study as in Rwanda).

**Sociology (Lauren)**

 * Alan Delamater (children)**

=Barbara Brennan=

Hands of Light
Seeing with mind, p 5 High sensory perception is a type of @seeing@ in which you peceve a picture in your mind without the use of your normal vision. P 6 The most important thing here is to give yourself time to listen in to yourself - … The process blending in with your surroundings is another way to describe experiencing expanded awareness. P7 If a person is unhealthy, it will show in his energy field as an unbalanced flow of energy and/or stagnated energy that has ceased to flow easily in a balanced field. P 7 In the process of learning to see the field, I also learned to interact with it consciously, as with anything else I can see. I could manipulate my own field to interact with another person's field. P 7 Channeled information would come in the form of words, concepts or symbolic pictures that would enter into my mind when I was rebalancing the client's energy field. I would always be in an altered state of consciousness when doing this. // (should be measurable) //

P 10
I believe that this process of developing High Sense Perception is a natural evolutionary step for the human race, … // (everyone can do it) // under the red haze will appear a gray, thick, fliud/like substance that conveys a heavy sadness. // (DOR??) //

P 11
Part III presents my findings on the relationship between the HEF and psychodynamics. // (qEEG to check what effect the healing on psychological problems) // P 13 …, two years of specialization in altered states of consciousness, specifically in deep relaxation techniques, …