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What Science Can Teach Us About Practice: The Neuroscience of Mindfulness

By Kelly McGonigal — 2011

Stanford psychologist and meditation teacher Kelly McGonigal, PhD, describes recent research in how meditation practice changes the brain and reduces suffering, including physical pain and depression.

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Meditation’s Impact on the Brain | Documentary Clip

This is a clip from the feature documentary “A Joyful Mind.”

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Richard Davidson
2019
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Lisa Feldman Barrett - How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

Lisa Feldman Barrett, PhD, is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University, with appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition to the book How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, Dr.

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Lisa Feldman Barrett
2018
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The PTSD Brains of Children and Soldiers - BBC News

Scientists have discovered that the brain structures of traumatised soldiers and children change in the same way. Subscribe to BBC News HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog Check out our website: http://www.bbc.com/news Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bbcworldnews Twitter: http://www.twitter.

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2016
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You Aren’t at the Mercy of Your Emotions—Your Brain Creates Them | Lisa Feldman Barrett

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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Lisa Feldman Barrett
2018
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How Meditation Impacts the Brain and Implications for Health

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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Helen Weng
2016
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The Science of Meditation

Meditation has never been so popular. But can it really make you smarter, happier and healthier? New research shows that it can affect the body as well as the mind, slow down the aging process, and even alter the structure of the brain.

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2016
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7 Min Meditation to Start Your Day | Yoga with Adriene

Use this 7 Min Meditation to set a positive intention for the course of your day. This all-levels mindful meditation is designed to help you gather yourself, connect to what feels good, and bring you a healthy focus for your day.

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Adriene Mishler
2018
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Pain Is Not Suffering

In this video clip taken from the Buddhist Geeks Conference 2011, Kelly McGonigal explores the neuroscience of meditation to help us understand how practice shapes the mind, and offers fresh insight into concepts like mindfulness and suffering.

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Kelly McGonigal
2012
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‘Default Mode Network’ Is Suppressed by Meditation Practice | Roland Griffiths

It is Dr. Patrick’s goal to challenge the status quo and encourage the wider public to think about health and longevity using a proactive, preventative approach.

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Roland Griffiths
2019
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Wisdom Research Forum: “The Wisdom of Being Here Now” by Amishi Jha, PhD

The Wisdom of Being Here Now: Strengthening Attention with Mindfulness Training Presentation by Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of Contemplative Neuroscience, Mindfulness Research and Practice Initiative, Amish Jha, PhD from the University of Miami at the University of Chicago Wisdom...

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Amishi Jha
2015
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