M4: Mindfulness Mechanisms and Methods Meeting

摘要 该提案要求为专注于正念的小型科学会议提供资金支持 机制和方法。在过去的十年里，在跨NIH大脑计划的支持下， 在开发有潜力实现这一目标的现有工具和技术方面取得了进展， 彻底改变了我们对人脑的理解与此同时，科学兴趣和正念研究 冥想已经爆炸，包括专注于正念的关键大脑行动机制， 实践对心理健康和福祉产生有益的影响，其中大部分工作是通过 NCCIH支持。然而，在这个被称为神经科学的子领域中， 由于一系列挑战，它一直像它应该的那样迅速：a）缺乏流畅性，甚至意识， 在许多对当前进展和可用的新工具持怀疑态度的神经科学家中; B）最小 基础研究人员和技术开发人员之间的互动，他们可以产生限制和新的 关于如何更有效地部署和传播这些工具的想法;以及c） 研究人员和高级从业人员，关于如何利用这一现代认知的最佳做法， 在正念指导和治疗干预的背景下，神经科学工具包。我们建议 组织一次科学会议来应对这些挑战。会议的目标是建立一个论坛， 不同的支持者可以聚集在一起，进行深入和广泛的跨学科对话和讨论。 此外，还将向一批经过挑选的初级学员颁发出席会议的旅行奖学金，以便 参与讨论，接受对自己工作的反馈，并与该领域的领军人物建立联系。 会议结束后，生物精神病学杂志的特刊：认知神经科学和 神经影像学将传播并吸引科学界对会议所涵盖主题的关注， 来自会议参与者和其他应邀调查者的意见。此外，一个小组编写的 来自与会者的立场文件（在生物精神病学姐妹期刊全球开放科学）将 列出最有前途的研究问题和战略，可以通过跨部门最富有成效的调查， 基础和老龄研究人员的学科团队，从而促进这种团队的形成，并吸引 国际观众的兴趣。

ABSTRACT This proposal requests funding support for a small-group scientific conference focused on Mindfulness Mechanisms and Methods. In the last decade, supported by the trans-NIH BRAIN Initiative, tremendous advances have been made in the development of available tools and technologies that have the potential to that revolutionize our understanding of the human brain. In parallel, scientific interest and research on mindfulness meditation has exploded, including that focused on key brain mechanisms of action by which mindfulness practices yield beneficial effects on psychological health and well-being, with much of this work occurring through NCCIH support. Yet progress in this subfield, which has been termed contemplative neuroscience, has not been as rapid as it should be, due to a due to a number of challenges: a) lack of fluency, and even awareness, among many contemplative neuroscientists regarding current advances and the new tools available; b) minimal interactions between basic researchers and technology developers, who can generate both constraints and new ideas, regarding how to more effectively deploy and disseminate these tools; and c) insufficient dialogue between researchers and advanced practitioners, regarding best practices on how to utilize this modern cognitive neuroscience toolkit within the context of mindfulness instruction and therapeutic intervention. We propose to organize a scientific meeting to address these challenges. The objective of the meeting will be to create a forum in which different constituencies can gather for intensive and extended inter-disciplinary dialogue and discussion. Additionally, a select group of junior trainees will be awarded travel fellowships to attend the meeting, in order to engage in discussions, receive feedback on their own work, and network with leading figures in this field. Following the conference, a special issue of the journal Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging will disseminate and attract scientific attention to the topics covered in the meeting, with submissions coming from meeting participants and other solicited investigators. Additionally, a group-authored position paper from conference participants (in the Biological Psychiatry sister journal Global Open Science) will lay out the most promising research questions and strategies that can be most productively investigated via inter- disciplinary teams of basic and aging researchers, thus facilitating the formation of such teams, and attracting the interest of an international audience.