BaruchRaelCahnMDPhD

Clinical Associate Professor, USC Department of Psychiatry

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Board certified psychiatrist working in academic psychiatry specializing in clinical work and neuroscientific studies of meditative practices for clinical benefit and well-being, exploring mind-body interactions and expanding the scope of psychiatric orientation towards positive psychiatry and mental practices for self-directed neural and mental transformation

Marquis Who’s Who In America 2011, 2013
Alliant University Award for Early Career Contributions in Integrative Psychology 2010
Scholarship for Academic Excellence The Evergreen State College, 1997
The Evergreen State College Non-sequitur award for academic excellence 1997
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PubMed

53 citations
Awakening is not a metaphor: the effects of Buddhist meditation practices on basic wakefulness
Willoughby B. Britton, Jared R. Lindahl, B. Rael Cahn, Jake H. Davis, Roberta E. Goldman
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 2014-01-01
128 citations
Occipital gamma activation during Vipassana meditation
B. Rael Cahn, Arnaud Delorme, John Polich
Cognitive Processing. 2010-02-01
667 citations
Meditation States and Traits: EEG, ERP, and Neuroimaging Studies.
B. Rael Cahn, John Polich
Psychological Bulletin. 2006-03-01

Journal Articles

Effects of psilocybin on time perception and temporal control of behaviour in humans.
Wittmann M, Carter O, Hasler F, Cahn BR, Grimberg U, Spring P, Hell D, Flohr H, Vollenweider FX, Journal of Psychopharmacology
Meditation (Vipassana) and the P3a Event-Related Brain Potential.
Cahn BR, Polich J, International Journal of Psychophysiology
Effects of Meditation-based Interventions in Older Adults: Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Cahn BR, Jeste DV, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Books/Book Chapters

Compassion and Wisdom in Psychotherapy.
Chapter: The Neurobiology of Wisdom
Meeks TW, Cahn BR, Jeste DVEditors: Christopher Germer and Ronald Seigel.

Abstracts/Posters

Neurophysiologic correlates to sensory and cognitive processing in altered states of consciousness.
Cahn BR, Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering

Other

Trophic support promotes survival of bcl-x-deficient telencephalic cells in vitro.
Shindler KS, Yunker AM, Cahn R, Zha J, Korsmeyer SJ, Roth KA, Cell Death and Differentiation
Bid regulation of neuronal apoptosis. Brain Research: Developmental Brain Research 128.
Leonard JR, D'Sa C, Cahn BR, Korsmeyer SJ, Roth KA
Cannabis and endocannabinoid modulators: Therapeutic promises and challenges.
Grant I, Cahn BR, Clinical Neuroscience Reviews
Meditation states and traits: EEG, ERP, and neuroimaging studies.
Cahn BR, Polich J, Psychological Bulletin 132
Occipital gamma activation during Vipassana meditation.
Cahn BR, Delorme A, Polich J, Cognitive Processing
Electrophysiologic correlates during Vipassana meditation: EEG, ERP, and time-frequency analyses indicate a brain state of enhanced clarity and reduced automated react...
Cahn BR, Polich J, Culture and Cognition in Asia: from Historical to Experimental Perspectives
The 5-HT2A/1A agonist psilocybin disrupts modal object completion associated with visual hallucinations.
Kometer M, Cahn BR, Andel D, Carter OL, Vollenweider FX, Biological Psychiatry
Not all meditations are the same: comparison of neural correlates of Vipassana, Isha and Himalayan traditions.
Braboszcz C, Cahn BR, Levy Y, Fernandez M, Delorme, A, Frontiers in Human Neurosciences
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