CENTRE FOR NEUROSCIENTIFIC STUDIES

WELCOME TO CNS@VASAI

Our main aim is to undertake neuroscientific research work that is of
a superlative quality when judged by global benchmarks. We strive to
excel in this endeavour despite all the constraints of finances, equipment,
logistics and infrastructure that are endemic to the Third World; and in
our own small way try to enhance the functioning of India in this tiny
domain of ours to the status of a fully developed First World nation. Even
as we achieve the best possible in the prevailing circumstances, we ensure
that at the very minimum our output finds a place in terms of quality in
the uppermost echelons of the global work on the neurological sciences.

Currently, we perform our research work at our field unit's station located
at Post Mulgaon, Taluka Vasai, District Thane in the Maharashtra state of
the Union of India. In the very near future, upon completion of the preliminary
stage of construction of our hospital and research institute, the Centre for
Neuroscientific Studies will shift to a more permanent location.

Apart from our basic and clinical neuroscientific research, we intend to serve
as a forum for the interdisciplinary interaction and exchange of ideas across
several streams linking to neuroscience, whether in the natural sciences or
the social sciences. An integral part of our mission involves instruction at
at all levels in the neurosciences through our team of experts. Moreover, there
are also several patient-education and community instruction schedules on the
drawing board that will serve as conduits of information and assistance to the
general public; with particular emphasis upon instruction of students with ten
to twelve years of education.

Our area of specialisation is in the field of research in behavioural and
social neurosciences especially as it relates to the study and practice of
religious precepts and principles. While there does exist an element of
comparative religious research herein, it is restricted only in as much
as the study design conforms to the rigmarole of neuroscientific research.
Essentially, the purely philosophical and/or theological study of comparative
religion is beyond our scope as we are a scientific institution.

The core work at our institution relates to Complex Systems and Neuroscience,
with some components of Consciousness Research. Concurrently, individual
researchers at our facility are also studying the effect of a regular schedule
of Yogic Meditation as a stress-control device in long-term examination of
Type-A office goers aged 35+. Another study on ADHD using Yogic Meditation
in small children as an alternative to psychotropic meditation, especially in those
children whose parents object to using such medication.

To access the clinical spectrum of our activities, click on the CNS General Hospital page.

ONLINE RESOURCES

NEUROSCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS

The Center for Neuroscience at the University of California, Davis.
There are several useful resources on this site, and links to the Human Brain Project.

Center for Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
This is an important center that has especially strong backing for undergraduates in Neuroscience.

Neuroscience and Physiology at UCSF

CNUP - Center of Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh

Centre for Neuroscience Studies at Queen's University Kingston, Ontario, Canada

The Neuroscience Program at MacAlester College, St.Paul, Minnesota

The Society for Neuroscience

The Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience

The International Brain Research Organisation

The Human Brain Project

CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH

http://consc.net/online.html
This site compiled by David Chalmers features a comprehensive listing of 2500+ papers on consciousness and related subjects. It is best to start here if you are beginning an overview of resources in consciousness.

http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/
This is the main institutional center for Consciousness Studies, that also hosts the Tucson "Toward a Science of Consciousness" conferences.

http://assc.caltech.edu/index.htm
The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, "promotes research directed toward understanding the nature, function, and underlying mechanisms of consciousness."

http://www.imprint.co.uk/jcs.html
The home page of the Journal for Consciousness Studies, a peer-reviewed journal.

http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/
PSYCHE is a refereed electronic journal dedicated to supporting the interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain.

http://www.aber.ac.uk/tfts/journal/
This refereed journal provides a forum for new work relating the arts and literature to the exploration of consciousness.

http://www.consciousness-brain.org/
This site is an extensive annotated bibliography of publications on consciousness, by philosophers, neuroscientists, and psychologists.

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Consciousness_studies
Ye olde Wiki, the good old Wikipedia, though seemingly a generalised publication, pops up a surprise from its sleeve. Check this information out, it is really very good. The contributors have done a very, very good job, and that's an understatement!

http://www.quantumconsciousness.org/
The views of Stuart Hameroff, with additional references to Sir Roger Penrose et al. Now, I don't subscribe to their theory of quantum consciousness, and I provide this link with the proviso that I certainly do NOT endorse the contents of this site. But, to be fair, it is a site propounding a certain hypothesis in science, even though that be flawed and far-fetched. Also, this site features a debate with its opponents, so it isn't a one-sided affair.

SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY

Spirituality in Higher Education, an article on the prevalence of spirituality in college students.

http://www.crystalinks.com/medbrain.html
An attempt to present the ElectroEncepholoGraphic [EEG] features during states of meditation.

Studies in Spirituality. A journal devoted to the study of spirituality.

Our precious foreign exchange student, Miss Caroline Brandt, has decided to allow the world a tiny peek at her creativity, through the impressive debut effort at writing a book termed FUTURES TILL. There's more stuff in her workbook, like this FUTURES TILL membership site, and Chuck's Blog. But, first off the blocks is The Prelude to FUTURES TILL: A Petition To The Queen.

The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences

This site presents an attempt to deconstruct and replicate spiritual phenomena through the appreciation and utilisation of their neurological roots in the CNS.

A site devoted to Yoga.

California Institute for Human Science, with a program on the spirituality of various religions.

The National Center for Science Education defends the teaching of evolution in schools.

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