Question: In what year was the man, who authored a self-help and meditation program that claims to increase an individual's abilities through relaxation and development of higher brain functions, born?

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James H. Fallon: James H. "Jim" Fallon (born October 18, 1947) is an American neuroscientist.  He is professor of psychiatry and human behavior and emeritus professor of anatomy and neurobiology in the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine.  His research interests include adult stem cells, chemical neuroanatomy and circuitry, higher brain functions, and brain imaging.

Lobes of the brain: The lobes of the brain were originally a purely anatomical classification, but have been shown also to be related to different brain functions.  The cerebrum, the largest portion of the human brain, is divided into lobes, but so is the cerebellum.  If not specified, the expression "lobes of the brain" refers to the cerebrum.

Seiji Ogawa: Seiji Ogawa (小川 誠二 "Ogawa Seiji", born January 19, 1934) is a Japanese researcher known for discovering the technique that underlies Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI).  He is regarded as the father of modern functional brain imaging.  He determined that the changes in blood oxygen levels cause its magnetic resonance imaging properties to change, allowing a map of blood, and hence, functional, activity in the brain to be created.  This map reflected which neurons of the brain responded with electrochemical signals to mental processes.  He was the first scientist who demonstrated that the functional brain imaging is depended on the oxygenation status of the blood, the BOLD effect.  The technique was therefore called Blood oxygenation level-dependent or BOLD contrast.  Functional MRI (fMRI) has been used to map the visual, auditory and sensory regions and moving toward higher brain functions such as cognitive functions in the brain.

Cortical cooling: Neuroscientists generate various studies to help explain many of the complex connections and functions of the brain.  Most studies utilize animal models that have varying degrees of comparison to the human brain; for example, small rodents are less comparable than non-human primates.  One of the most definitive ways of determining which sections of the brain contribute to certain behavior or function is to deactivate a section of the brain and observe what behavior is altered.  Investigators have a wide range of options for deactivating neural tissue, and one of the more recently developed methods being used is deactivation through cooling.  Cortical cooling refers to the cooling methods restricted to the cerebral cortex, where most higher brain processes occur.  Below is a list of current cooling methods, their advantages and limitations, and some studies that have used cooling to elucidate neural functions.

José Silva (parapsychologist): José Silva (August 11, 1914 – February 7, 1999) was an American self-taught parapsychologist and author of the "Silva Method" and the "Silva UltraMind ESP System", intended to help people increase their IQ, develop psychic skills, and to develop the ability to heal both themselves and others remotely, using forces unknown to science.

Relaxation (psychology): Relaxation in psychology, is the emotional state of a living being, of low tension, in which there is an absence of arousal that could come from sources such as anger, anxiety, or fear.  According to the Oxford dictionary relaxation is when the body and mind are free from tension and anxiety.  Relaxation is a form of mild ecstasy coming from the frontal lobe of the brain in which the backward cortex sends signals to the frontal cortex via a mild sedative.  Relaxation can be achieved through meditation, autogenics, and progressive muscle relaxation.  Relaxation helps improve coping with stress.  Stress is the leading cause of mental problems and physical problems, therefore feeling relaxed is beneficial for a person's health.  When we are stressed, the sympathetic nervous system is activated because we are in a fight-or-flight response mode; over time, this could have negative effects on a human body.

Silva Method: The Silva Method is a self-help and meditation program developed by José Silva.  It claims to increase an individual's abilities through relaxation and development of higher brain functions.

Robert Wurtz: Robert H. Wurtz is an American neuroscientist working as a NIH Distinguished Scientist and Chief of the Section on Visuomotor Integration at the National Eye Institute.  He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He is recognised for developing methods for studying the visual system in 'awake-behaving' primates (as opposed to those under anesthesia), a technique now widely used for the study of higher brain functions.  He pioneered the study of the neuronal basis of vision and its relation with cognitive functions.

Richard Geller (meditation instructor): Richard Geller (born 1952) is president of Boston-based MedWorks Corporate Meditation Programs that provides stress reduction courses based on meditation to corporations and their employees.  His company serves corporations such as the Reebok division of Adidas, Medtronic, and Genzyme.  Geller advises employers to use employee feedback in building their stress reduction and meditation program.  Since 1996, he has also been a volunteer for the weekly meditation classes at Suffolk County House of Corrections, the Boston county jail as part of the Prison Mindfulness Institute.

Pharmaco-electroencephalography: Electroencephalography (EEG) is the science of recording the spontaneous rhythmic electrical activity of a living brain through electrodes on the scalp.  Brain rhythms have origins similar to the electrical activity of the heart.  The rhythmic activity varies in frequency and amplitude with age, attention, sleep, and chemical concentrations of oxygen, carbon dioxide, glucose, ammonia, and hormones.  Chemicals that affect brain functions change brain rhythms in systematic and identifiable ways.  As new psychoactive drugs were discovered that changed behavior, the basis for the science of psychopharmacology, the accompanying changes in the rhythms were found to be drug class specific.  The measurement of the changes in rhythms became the basis for the science of pharmaco-EEG.

Supporting paragraphs: José Silva (parapsychologist) Silva Method
Answer: 1914