The Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine 

 

 

presents

 

 

 

 

Catherine E. Kerr, Ph.D.

Division for Research and Education in

Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies

Harvard Medical School

 

 

 

Somatosensory cortical areas as neural correlates of meditation and acupuncture

 

                                                                               

Tuesday January 24, 2006

12:00 pm to 1:00 pm*

 

Hammer Health Sciences Center (HHSC) Room 308 (a classroom)

701 W. 168th Street*, 3rd floor

 

 

·          NW Corner of West 168th Street and Ft. Washington Avenue, 1 long block west of Broadway (W. 168th becomes Haven Avenue west of Ft. Washington Ave.). Go to this website for a map, http://www.cumc.columbia.edu/about/map.html. HHSC #4 on the map. 

·          There is a parking garage at W. 165th Street & Ft. Washington Ave.

 

* (bring your lunch)

 

 

Dr. Catherine Kerr is Instructor in General Medicine, Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies, and Harvard Medical School.  Her research looks at whether acupuncture and meditation work by eliciting changes in neural systems that underlie our bodily sense of self—e.g., early cortical interoceptive, tactile and/or proprioceptive areas.  She will present results from two recent studies suggesting that acupuncture and meditation may effect changes via a common "embodiment" pathway. 

(See over for Dr. Kerr’s selected publications)

 

 

Moderated by:    Janet Mindes, Ph.D., Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
 

 

 
Catherine E. Kerr, Ph.D., Selected Publications
 
 
Lazar SW, Kerr CE, Wasserman RH, Gray JR, Greve DN, Treadway MT, McGarvey M, Quinn BT, Dusek JA, Benson H, Rauch SL, Moore CI, Fischl B.  Meditation experience is associated with increased cortical thickness. Neuroreport. 2005 Nov 28;16(17):1893-7.
 
Schnyer RN, Conboy LA, Jacobson E, McKnight P, Goddard T, Moscatelli F, Legedza AT, Kerr C, Kaptchuk TJ, Wayne PM.  Development of a chinese medicine assessment measure: an interdisciplinary approach using the delphi method. J Altern Complement Med. 2005 Dec;11(6):1005-13.
 
Patel SM, Stason WB, Legedza A, Ock SM, Kaptchuk TJ, Conboy L, Canenguez K, Park JK, Kelly E, Jacobson E, Kerr CE, Lembo AJ.  The placebo effect in irritable bowel syndrome trials: a meta-analysis. Neurogastroenterol Motil. 2005 Jun;17(3):332-40.
 
Robinson EJ, Kerr CE, Stevens AJ, Lilford RJ, Braunholtz DA, Edwards SJ, Beck SR, Rowley MG.  Lay public's understanding of equipoise and randomisation in randomised controlled trials. Health Technol Assess. 2005 Mar;9(8):1-192, iii-iv.
 
Stone DA, Kerr CE, Jacobson E, Conboy LA, Kaptchuk TJ.  Patient expectations in placebo-controlled randomized clinical trials. J Eval Clin Pract. 2005 Feb;11(1):77-84.
 
Kaptchuk TJ, Kerr CE.  Commentary: unbiased divination, unbiased evidence, and the patulin clinical trial.
Int J Epidemiol. 2004 Apr;33(2):247-51. 
 
Kerr CE, Robinson EJ, Lilford RJ, Edwards SJ, Braunholtz DA, Stevens AJ.  The impact of describing clinical trial treatments as new or standard. Patient Educ Couns. 2004 Apr;53(1):107-13.
 
Greene PJ, Wayne PM, Kerr CE, Weiger WA, Jacobson E, Goldman P, Kaptchuk TJ.  The powerful placebo: doubting the doubters. Adv Mind Body Med. 2001 Fall;17(4):298-307; discussion 312-8. Review.