Zen Brain 1
January 8th, 2009Recorded on: January 8th, 2009
Posted on: February 2nd, 2009
Speaker: Sandra Blakeslee
Show: 113Science journalist and New York Times contributor Sandra Blakeslee provides an overview of how recent developments in neuroscience have changed the way we view the impact of various practices, including meditation, upon brain structure and function.
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* * *Zen Brain 2
January 8th, 2009Recorded on: January 8th, 2009
Posted on: February 9, 2009
Speaker: Richard Davidson, Ph.D.
Show: 114
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson provides an introduction to brain systems that may be relevant to meditation. This presentation gives an orientation to neurophysiology and lays the foundation for Dr. Davidson’s second presentation which discusses the relationship between the brain and meditation.* * *Zen Brain 3
January 8th, 2009Zen Brain Question and Answer Session #1
Recorded on: January 8, 2009
Posted on: February 11, 2009
Speaker: Presenters and Audience
Show: 115The presenters read and answer questions written by the audience. Topics include the role of meditation in the scientific workplace; trauma, PTSD and resilience in relation to meditation; and whether meditators have less of a chance of developing dementia or Alzheimer’s.
Offering multiple perspectives from many fields of human inquiry that may move all of us toward a more integrated understanding of who we are as conscious beings.
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
Upaya Dharma Podcasts - Zen Brain
Here are three very cool podcasts from Upaya Zen Center, where Roshi Joan Halifax teaches. Included in these discussions are author Sandra Blakeslee (The Body Has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better, and Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind, with V. S. Ramachandran) and neuroscientist Richard Davidson (Visions of Compassion: Western Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists Examine Human Nature, editor, and Anxiety, Depression, and Emotion).
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