Ulrich Ott (psychologist)

Ulrich Ott (* 1965 ) is a German psychologist and meditation researcher .

Ott studied psychology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and graduated with a diploma in 1996 . In 2000 he received his doctorate there with a dissertation on the characteristics of 40 Hz activity in the EEG during rest, mental arithmetic and meditation . From 1998 to 2005 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Psychobiology and Behavioral Medicine at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen in the project Psychophysiology of Altered States of Consciousness : Rhythmic Trance Induction , since 2005 he has been a research assistant at the Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Hygiene in Freiburg im Breisgau was delegated to the Bender Institute of Neuroimaging at the University of Gießen, where he heads the working group Altered States of Consciousness (ASC) .

Fonts (selection)

• Meditation for skeptics. OW Barth, Munich 2010.
• Neuroscientific Research on Mindfulness Meditation: Mental Training, Health, and - Oops! - Nirvana? In: W. Belschner, A. Büssing, H. Piron, D. Wienand-Kranz (eds.): Mindfulness as a form of life (= psychology of consciousness. Volume 6). LIT Verlag, Münster 2007, pp. 19–33.
• States of absorption: In search of neurobiological foundations . In GA Jamieson (ed.): Hypnosis and Consciousness States: the cognitive-neuroscience perspective. Oxford University Press, New York 2007, pp. 257-270.
• Meditative immersion: disposition, training, physiological mechanisms. In: W. Belschner, H. Piron, H. Walach (eds.): Consciousness transformation as an individual and social goal. Approaches in meditation, psychotherapy and empirical research (= psychology of consciousness. Volume 1). LIT Verlag, Münster 2005, pp. 53–72.
• Meditation. In: D. Vaitl, F. Petermann (Hrsg.): Entspannungsverfahren. The practical manual. Beltz, Weinheim 2004, pp. 177–188.
• Characteristics of 40 Hz activity in the EEG during rest, mental arithmetic, and meditation. (= Writings on meditation and meditation research. Volume 3). Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-631-36956-5 . (also dissertation Univ. Frankfurt am Main 2000)

Web links

• Personal page at the Bender Institute of Neuroimaging at the University of Giessen
• Literature by and about Ulrich Ott in the catalog of the German National Library
• Guest lecture at the Yoga Vidya Yoga Congress 2009 on the subject of meditation as regulation, relaxation, concentration, emotion, self-model. on: podcast.de January 1, 2010
• Member of the scientific advisory board of the first multidisciplinary congress on meditation research in Germany, Berlin, 26. – 27. November 2010 meditation-wissenschaft.org
• Holger Fuß: Mindfulness changes the brain. In: stern.de, May 5, 2009 (online)
• Martin Hubert: Neurons and Nirvana. Part 2: How the brain overcomes the world. on: dradio.de, December 28, 2008 (online)
• Till Hein: Nuclear spin in nirvana. In: zeit.de, February 2, 2008 online