Exploring Frontiers of the Mind-Brain Relationship

1. Materialism’s Eternal Return: Recurrent Patterns of Materialistic Explanations of Mental Phenomena
Saulo Freitas Araujo

2. The Major Objections from Reductive Materialism Against Belief in the Existence of Cartesian Mind–Body Dualism
Robert Almeder

3. Psychic Phenomena and the Mind–Body Problem: Historical Notes on a Neglected Conceptual Tradition
Carlos S. Alvarado

4. No-Collapse Physics and Consciousness
Chris Clarke

5. The “Quantum Soul”: A Scientific Hypothesis
Stuart Hameroff, Deepak Chopra

6. The Neurobiological Correlates of Meditation and Mindfulness
Jesse Edwards, Julio Peres, Daniel A. Monti, Andrew B. Newberg

7. Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Emotional Self-Regulation and Spiritual Experiences
Mario Beauregard

8. Can Near Death Experiences Contribute to the Debate on Consciousness?
Peter Fenwick

9. Death, End of Life Experiences, and Their Theoretical and Clinical Implications for the Mind–Brain Relationship
Franklin Santana Santos, Peter Fenwick

10. Research on Mediumship and the Mind–Brain Relationship
Alexander Moreira-Almeida

11. Cases of the Reincarnation Type and the Mind–Brain Relationship
Erlendur Haraldsson

12. Conclusion
Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Franklin Santana Santos

Keywords: Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Neurobiology, Philosophy of Mind, Quantum Physics, Personality and Social Psychology, Neurosciences