Sara Lazar

Optimize your brain, body, and life with meditation

Until not long ago, scientists studying the nervous system believed that the adult brain was incapable of growing new cells.…

March 1, 2017

How meditation can reshape our brains

Neuroscientist Sara Lazar's amazing brain scans show meditation can actually change the size of key regions of our brain, improving…

November 11, 2015

Dalai Lama’s American doctor wants more compassion in medicine

PBS Newshour: Before he was a personal physician to the Dalai Lama, Dr. Barry Kerzin never imagined that a professional…

October 29, 2015

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

Harvard neuroscientist: Meditation not only reduces stress, here’s how it changes your brain

Brigid Schulte, The Washington Post: Sara Lazar, a Harvard neuroscientist, was one of the first scientists to take the anecdotal…

May 26, 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

Harvard unveils MRI study proving meditation literally rebuilds the brain’s gray matter in 8 weeks

FeelGuide: Test subjects taking part in an 8-week program of mindfulness meditation showed results that astonished even the most experienced…

November 25, 2014

Proof that meditation can grow your brain

Stephen Adams, Mail Online: Meditating really is a workout for the mind, according to scientists who have found it can…

November 10, 2014

Brain researcher, Sara Lazar, visits MU to share research on meditation, yoga

Abbey Sussell, Missourian: In an overcrowded Acuff Auditorium at MU on Monday night, there was a moment of complete silence.…

April 11, 2013

Meditation can improve health

Jan Brogan, Boston Globe: On Halloween, turnout at the Advaita Meditation Center in Waltham was lower than usual, but still,…

November 27, 2012