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Catherine Kerr is currently an Assistant Professor of medicine, Assistant Professor of family medicine, and the director of Translational Neuroscience in the Contemplative Studies Initiative at Brown University. Kerr received her bachelor's from Amherst College before completing her Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://vivo.brown.edu/docs/drrb/1314807477.pdf )〕 Following this she was a post doctoral fellow and Instructor at Harvard Medical School, and it was here that she received a career development award from the NIH to conduct research into the cognitive neuroscience of meditation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://vivo.brown.edu/display/ck5 )〕 She joined Brown's Department of Family Medicine and Contemplative Studies Initiative in 2011.〔 ==Work== Her research primarily involves investigating the effects that body-based attention practices such as Tai Chi and mindfulness have on the brain and the nervous system.Her lab specifically focuses on sensory and motor cortical dynamics engaged by body-based attention and mindfulness because they see these processes as key to the effects of many contemplative practices.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://vivo.brown.edu/display/ck5 )〕 Kerr's work has also recently been featured in popular culture and media - she can be seen in Forbes, The New York Times, and gave a TED Talk on neural bases of the effects of mindfulness.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/health/research/03regimens.html?_r=0 )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2011/09/09/catherine-kerr-on-the-science-of-meditation/ )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/2279 )〕 Kerr continues to receive grants for her growing body of work, and she is cited more and more each month - currently she has another NIH grant to study asthma symptom management via mindfulness training. Other notable work Kerr has been involved in includes: * ''National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine'' (NCCAM) / NIH, "Effects of Mindfulness Meditation on Somatosensory Cortical Maps in Chronic Pain"〔 * ''Frontiers in Human Neuroscience'' 2013; 13, 7-12, "Mindfulness starts with the body: Somatosensory attention and cortical alpha modulation in mindfulness meditation"〔 * ''Mindfulness ''2014, "Moving beyond mindfulness: Defining equanimity as an outcome measure in meditation and contemplative research"〔〔 * ''Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry'' 2002; 26(4):419-447, "Translating 'mind-in-body': two models of patient experience underlying a randomized controlled trial of ''qigong"''〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catherine Kerr (neuroscientist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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