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L’ANIMA TRASCENDE E L’ALIENO TRASALE

di Corrado Malanga
20 luglio 2005

BIBLIOGRAFIA SULLA REALTÀ VIRTUALE

Titolo: Imagery
Block N. (1981), The MIT Press, Cambridge (MA).

Titolo: Imagery
Block N. (1981), The MIT Press, Cambridge (MA).

Titolo: Le imagini nella mente
Kosslyn S. M. (1983), Giunti Barbera, Firenze.

Titolo: Image and Brain. The resolution of the Imagery Debate
Id. (1994), The MIT Press, Cambridge; (MA).

Titolo: Le immagini mentali. Teorie e processi
Marucci F. S. (1995), Carocci Editore.

Titolo: in Visual Cognition, Vol. II di An invitation to Cognitive Science
Osherson D. N. & Kosslyn S. M. (1995), The MIT Press, Cambridge, (MA).

BIBLIOGRAFIA SULLA MEDITAZIONE TRASCENDENTALE (MT EFFECT)

Titolo: Lower oxidative stress
Riassunto: significantly lower plasma levels of oxidized LDLs in elderly long term TM practitioners compared to controls. Study controlled for group dietary differences. Schneider, R., Nidich, S., Salerno, J., Sharma, H., Robinson, C., Nidich, R. and Alexander, C.; Lower lipid peroxide levels in practitioners of the Transcendental Meditation program. Psychosomatic Medicine, 1998. 60: p. 38-41

Titolo: Effects of the Transcendental Meditation program on lipid peroxide levels in community-dwelling older adults.
Riassunto: Prevention of disease: lower levels of free-radicals in the elderly. SCHNEIDER, R. H.; NIDICH, S.; SHARMA, H.; ROBINSON, C.; FOSTER, G.; NIDICH, R.; GOODMAN, R.; and ALEXANDER, C. Effects of the Transcendental Meditation program on lipid peroxide levels in community-dwelling older adults. Presented at the Third International Congress of Behavioral Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 6-9 July 1994. Recent Research 460.

Titolo: The effect of Transcendental Meditation on ambulatory blood pressure and cardiovascular reactivity.
Riassunto: More ideal levels of blood pressure in normotensive subjects: decreased mean diastolic ambulatory blood pressure.
Wenneberg, S., Schneider, R., Walton, K., MacLean, C., Levitsky, D., Salerno, J. and Wallace, R.; A controlled study of the effects of the Transcendental Meditation Program on Cardiovascular Reactivity and Ambulatory Blood Pressure. International J. Neuroscience, 1997. 89: p. 15-28

Titolo: The Impact of Transcendental Meditation practice on medical expenditures.
Riassunto: Decreased medical care expenditures. Greatest savings for elderly and high cost people. Herron, R. and Hillis, S.; The impact of the Transcendental Meditation program on government payments to physicians in Quebec: An update.American Journal of Health Promotion, 2000. 14(5): p. 284-293

Titolo: Effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM) on the health behavior of industrial workers.
Riassunto: Improved sleep and decreased smoking in industrial workers: decreased time to fall asleep, reduced waking during the night, decreased smoking, fewer cigarettes smoked per day.
HARATANI, T., and HENMI, T. Effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM) on the health behavior of industrial workers. Japanese Journal of Public Health 37 (10): 729, 1990.
Recent Research 457.

Titolo: Effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM) on the mental health of industrial workers.
Riassunto: Improvements in general physical and mental well-being in industrial workers: decreased physical complaints, decreased impulsive tendency, reduced emotional instability, and decreased neurotic tendency.
HARATANI, T., and HENMI, T. Effects of Transcendental Meditation (TM) on the mental health of industrial workers. Japanese Journal of Industrial Health 32(7): 346, 1990. Recent Research 456.

Titolo: Acute immunoreactivity, Transcendental Meditation, and Type A/B behavior.
Riassunto: Improved immune response to stress.
BLASDELL, K. S. Acute immunoreactivity, Transcendental Meditation, and Type A/B behavior. Abstract of Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Physiological and Biological Sciences, Maharishi University of Management, U.S.A. Dissertation Abstracts International 50(10): 4806B, 1990. Recent Research 455.

Titolo: In search of an optimal behavioral treatment for hypertension: A review and focus on Transcendental Meditation.
Riassunto: Reduction of High Blood Pressure.
SCHNEIDER, R. H.; ALEXANDER, C. N.; and WALLACE, R. K. In search of an optimal behavioral treatment for hypertension: A review and focus on Transcendental Meditation. In Personality, Elevated Blood Pressure, and Essential Hypertension., eds. E. H. Johnson, W. D. Gentry, and S. Julius, pp. 291-316. Washington, D. C. : Hemisphere Publishing Corp., 1992. Recent Research 454.

Titolo: Transcendental Meditation, mindfulness, and longevity: an experimental study with the elderly.
Riassunto: Benefits for the elderly demonstrating reversal of aging: increased longevity (higher survival rate). Reduction of systolic blood pressure to more ideal levels. Improved mental health (improvements on nurses' mental health ratings). Increased cognitive flexibility (less premature cognitive commitment, increased learning ability on associate learning and greater perceptual flexibility). Increased word fluency. Improvements in self- reported measures of behavioral flexibility and aging (greater ability to cope with inconvenience, reduced feelings of being old, less impatience with others). Greater sense of well-being (feeling better during the TM program, high interest in the TM program and high ratings of the value of the TM program. Feeling better and more relaxed after the TM program).
ALEXANDER, C. N.; LANGER, E. J.; NEWMAN, R. I. . CHANDLER, H. M.; and DAVIES, J. L. Transcendental Meditation, mindfulness, and longevity: an experimental study with the elderly. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 57(6): 950-964, 1989. Recent Research 453.

Titolo: Transcendental Meditation, mindfulness, and longevity: an experimental study with the elderly.
Riassunto: Benefits for the elderly demonstrating reversal of aging: increased longevity. Increased cognitive flexibility (including increased learning ability and greater perceptual flexibility). Increased word fluency. Improvements in self-reported measures of behavioral flexibility and aging. Greater sense of well-being. Improved mental health. Reduction of blood pressure to more ideal levels.
ALEXANDER, C. N.; LANGER, E. J.; NEWMAN, R. I.; CHANDLER, H. M.; and DAVIES, J. L. Transcendental Meditation, mindfulness, and longevity: an experimental study with the elderly. Summary of paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 57(6): 950- 964, 1989. Collected Papers v5.380.

Titolo: Medical care utilization at Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa.
Riassunto:Lower health insurance utilization rates among MIU faculty and staff.
ORME-JOHNSON, D. W., and VEGORS, S. Medical care utilization at Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa. Abstract of paper presented at the 100th Session, Iowa Academy of Science, Ames, Iowa, April 1988. Abstract insert in the Journal of the Iowa Academy of Science 95(1): A56. Collected Papers v5.379.