meditation & brain science

Science shows what meditation really does to your brain

Jon Levine, Science.Mic: Meditation, according to its spiritual gurus, is a universal panacea. Enthusiasts have long preached its benefits, which…

June 1, 2015

Meditation optimizes adaptive behavior

News-Medical: Certain meditation techniques can promote behavior to vary adaptively from moment to moment depending on current goals, rather than…

May 18, 2015

How does meditation make you smarter?

Viatcheslav Wlassoff, PhD, BrainBlogger: Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you don’t need to be told about the relaxing…

May 7, 2015

Science assesses benefits of mindfulness

Gary Robbins, U-T San Diego: Researchers have an intriguing but incomplete picture of what’s going on. Jeff Lee says he…

April 3, 2015

Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche discusses the relevance of science as a tool for meditators

Tricycle Magazine: Born in Nepal in 1975, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche is the youngest son of the eminent meditation master Tulku…

March 27, 2015

Power of meditation as therapy explored in research

Wayne Mogielnicki, Pocono Record: When Rebecca Erwin was a varsity rower at the University of North Carolina, the coach had…

March 26, 2015

Science confirms benefits of meditation

Papiya Bhattacharya, The New Indian Express: Research at Nimhans on the benefits of yoga and meditation has found validation in…

March 25, 2015

Seven ways meditation can actually change the brain

Alice G. Walton, Forbes: The meditation-and-the-brain research has been rolling in steadily for a number of years now, with new…

February 9, 2015

Forever young: meditation might slow the age-related loss of gray matter in the brain, say UCLA researchers

Mark Wheeler, UCLA: Since 1970, life expectancy around the world has risen dramatically, with people living more than 10 years…

February 8, 2015

Meditation changes the brain’s wiring and mindset, Harvard studies show

Debra Stern, HNGN: Sarah Lazar's voice was calming even over the phone as she demonstrated, for this interview, a typical…

January 19, 2015