The Rosenthal Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine

presents the

K. J. Lee Fellowship Lecture, 2005

Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D.

Director, Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging & Behavior University of Wisconsin, Madison

and

Robert A. M. Thurman, Ph.D.

Jey Tsong Khapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Studies, Columbia University

Tibetan Mind Science Meets

Modern Neuroscience

Thursday, February 24, 2005

4:00-5:30

Columbia University Medical Center

New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1^st Floor Auditorium

Reception to Follow

Professors Davidson and Thurman will discuss the intersection of ancient Tibetan practices and modern neuroscience’s investigation of meditation and affective control. They will provide an update on recent scholarly and research progress and on the MIT conference in September 2003 with the Dalai Lama, Tibetan monks and neuroscientists.

Fredi Kronenberg, Ph.D., Director, Rosenthal Center for CAM, CUMC

HOSTS: Philip R. Muskin, M.D., Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Psychiatry Department, CUMC

Directions to the NY State Psychiatric Institute

1st Floor Auditorium

Walking west on W.168th St. from Broadway, cross the next N/S street, Ft. Washington Ave., as W. 168th St. turns into Haven Ave. and curves around the Hammer Building to your right (#4 on map).

Keep walking west on Haven Ave. to Lawrence Kolb Research Building (#3, red brick bldg.) at 722 Haven Ave.  Enter lobby, turn right, walk through public atrium facing Hudson River, turning left to continue walking west via glassed-in bridge over Riverside Drive, to the new NYSPI building between Riverside Dr., and the Henry Hudson Parkway (#30). You will arrive at the 6th floor lobby of the building, elevators to your right. Take elevator down to 1st floor. Auditorium is right in front of you as you exit elevators.  

Post-lecture reception will be held in the public space just outside the auditorium.