Does Mindfulness Really Work? What the Science Tells Us. With Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson, authors of “Altered Traits.”
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Learn about the evolution and future of human sex, love, marriage, gender differences in the brain and how your personality type shapes who you are and who you love.
A conversation with the biological anthropologist and Rutgers University professor Helen Fisher
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"What is a conscious self ? What exactly makes an experience a subjective phenomenon ? Starting with the neurology of out-of-body experiences and the breakdown of bodily mechanisms of self-consciousness, this talk presents novel neuroscience data on self-consciousness and subjectivity in healthy...
Neuroscientists in Lausanne study the weird phenomenon to prove it's not an illusion, or paranormal, but an organic process triggered by a malfunction in a very specific spot inside the brain.
Naltrexone isn't something that people should take as if it were another supplement to add to their cupboard.
Can you look at someone’s face and know what they’re feeling? Does everyone experience happiness, sadness and anxiety the same way? What are emotions anyway? For the past 25 years, psychology professor Lisa Feldman Barrett has mapped facial expressions, scanned brains and analyzed hundreds of...
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How does mindfulness and meditation improve health? Helen Weng, UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, explains that training our internal mental lives can have positive effects on our minds, health, and relationships.
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Neurosculpting mindfulness practices are not just for those in search of general stress relief, but also for officers in high trauma careers.
For the first time ever, scientists scanned a brain on LSD using modern technology. What they saw was a more "unified brain." In the experiment, researchers scanned dozens of participants with a fMRI machine. Once after being injected with 75 micrograms of LSD and a second time with salt water.
Greed is good. War is inevitable. Whether in political theory or popular culture, human nature is often portrayed as selfish and power hungry.