The Brain in the News
[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Read Dr. Hanson’s study on positive brain change published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Positive Psychology, December 6, 2021.
Below you will find the latest news about the brain, psychology, and the science of well-being, mindfulness, and meditation. And I invite you to send me news items, including scientific studies, great video clips, social implications of brain science, etc., that you find yourself.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1516026673046{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1675049776623{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Surprising Discovery: MIT Neuroscientists Find That Adult Brain Is Filled With Millions of “Silent Synapses”
Anne Trafton, MIT, January 25, 2023[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1675049861799{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Researchers create ‘Olympian’ mice by stabilizing brain connections involved in skill learning
Nicholas Weiler, Stanford Bio-X, September 1, 2021[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1589916794638{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Largest Brain Wiring Diagram to Date Is Published
Diana Kwon, Scientific American, January 22, 2020[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1516026673046{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1589916422925{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Screen Use Tied to Children’s Brain Development
Perri Klass, M.D., New York Times, November 4, 2019[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1589918037099{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Learning Not to Fear
MGH News and Public Affairs, The Harvard Gazette, October 15, 2019[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1516026673046{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1589919086412{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
A Successful Artificial Memory Has Been Created
Robert Martone, Scientific American, August 27, 2019[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1589919505192{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Virtual Reality as Therapy for Pain
Jane E. Brody, New York Times, April 29, 2019[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1589921014093{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Huge Brain Study Uncovers “Buried” Genetic Networks Linked to Mental Illness
Linda Geddes, Scientific American, December 14, 2018[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1516026673046{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1589921869992{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
With Brain Implants, Scientists Aim to Translate Thoughts into Speech
Sharon Begley, STAT, Scientific American, November 20, 2018[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1589922430677{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Reprogrammed Stem Cells Implanted into Patient with Parkinson’s Disease
David Cyranoski, Nature Magazine, November 15, 2018[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1589924026201{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Mindfulness Could Be the Key to Stopping Technological Misery
Andrew Griffin, Independent, February 24, 2018[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1516026673046{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516311874955{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Neuroscience Has a Lot to Learn from Buddhism
Matthieu Ricard and Wolf Singer, The Atlantic, December 17, 2017[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516311900705{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Mindfulness
Anderson Cooper, 60 Minutes, December 14, 2014[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516311912518{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
What Does Mindfulness Meditation Do to Your Brain?
Tom Ireland, Scientific American, June 12, 2014[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern” css=”.vc_custom_1516026612297{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516311923114{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Spine Tuning: Finding Physical Evidence of How Practice Rewires the Brain
Ferris Jabr, Scientific American, April 16, 2012[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516311933036{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Neural Responses Reveal Our Optimistic Bent
Andrea Anderson, Scientific American, April 10, 2012[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516311943619{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
A Neuroscientist’s Quest to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain
Gareth Cook, Scientific American, March 20, 2012[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516311955685{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Buddhism, Cosmology and Evolution
John Stanley and David Loy, Huffington Post, February 26, 2012[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516311965568{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
How the Internet is Changing Our Brain
Shaahin Cheyene, Huffington Post, February 12, 2012[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516311975680{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
How to Have More Insights
David Rock, Huffington Post, February 8, 2012[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312041263{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Mindful Eating as Food for Thought
Jeff Gordinier, New York Times, February 7, 2012[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312082574{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
How Exercise Benefits the Brain
Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times, November 30, 2011[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312093962{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Decoding the Brain’s Cacophony
Benedict Carey, New York Times, October 31, 2011[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312104214{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
How Tanning Changes the Brain
Ahahad O’Connor, New York Times, August 12, 2011[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312114310{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Is Meditation the Push-Up for the Brain? Study Shows Practice May Have Potential to Change Brain’s Physical Structure
ScienceDaily, July 14, 2011[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312193737{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
The Neurobiology of Bliss–Sacred and Profane – Sex in the brain, and what it reveals about the neuroscience of deep pleasure
Nadia Webb, Scientific American, July 12, 2011[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312208536{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Regimens: Noise Canceling, Without Headphones
Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, May 2, 2011[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312252767{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
How Meditation May Change the Brain
Sindya N. Bhanoo, New York Times, January 28, 2011[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312267965{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Searching the Brain for the Roots of Fear
Joseph Ledoux, New York Times, January 22, 2011[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312291577{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Mindfulness Meditation Training Changes Brain Structure in Eight Weeks
ScienceDaily, January 21, 2011[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312243323{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Buddhism Beats Depression
Ed Halliwell, January 5, 2010[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312301903{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop
Natalie Angier, New York Times, August 17, 2009[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312364063{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Smile As You Read This: Language That Puts You In Touch With Your Bodily Feelings
ScienceDaily, August 15, 2009[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312374841{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Adult Brain Can Change Within Seconds
ScienceDaily, July 30, 2009[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312385240{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Lotus Therapy
Benedict Carey, The New York Times, May 27, 2008[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312397587{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Meditation May Increase Gray Matter
ScienceDaily, May 13, 2009[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312408900{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Compassion Meditation Changes The Brain
ScienceDaily, March 27, 2008[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312418516{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
How Your Brain Looks at Race
Sharon Begley, Newsweek, March 3, 2008[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312428893{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Mental Reserves Keep Brains Agile
Jane E. Brody, December 11, 2007[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312437762{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Meditation May Fine-tune Control Over Attention
ScienceDaily, May 10, 2007[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312447224{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Faith in the Brain
Juju Chang and Michael Pressman, May 10, 2007[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312463298{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Study Suggests Meditation Can Help Train Attention
Sandra Blakeslee, May 8, 2007[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312475343{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
The Brain on the Stand
Jeffrey Rosen, March 11, 2007[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312485908{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
The Brain’s Secret Plans
Max Planck Society, February 12, 2007[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312495703{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Happiness 101
D.T. Max, January 7, 2007[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312504558{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
The Mystery of Consciousness
Steven Pinker, January, 2007[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312514907{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Speaking in Tongues
Benedict Carey, November 7, 2006[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312525279{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
A Week of Silence
Daniel Siegel, November, 2006[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312534204{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Femme Mentale
Joe Garofoli, August 6, 2006[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312544331{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Finding Reality through Meditation
Ansley Roche, January 18, 2006[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312558744{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Meditation Builds Brain Muscles
Alison Motluk, November 15, 2005[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312585513{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
The Brain Tells Time
Robert Roy Britt, October 28, 2005[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312594925{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
The Movie in Your Head
Christof Koch, September 21, 2005[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312603397{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
The Evolving Human Brain
Melissa Lee Phillips, September 9, 2005[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312621973{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Meditation ‘Brain Training’ Clues
BBC News, June 13, 2005[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312653811{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Meditation Skills of Buddhist Monks Yield Clues to Brain’s Regulation of Attention
Medical News Today, June 7, 2005[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312670275{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Religious Practice May Slow Alzheimer’s
Science Daily, May 1, 2005[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312682387{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Meditation Alters Brain Structure
By Sharon Begley, November 5, 2004[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312692411{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
New Brain Studies and Meditation
Punnadhammo Bhikku, June, 2003[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1516312704439{margin-top: 10px !important;margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]
Can Buddhists Transcend Mental Reservations?
Steve Connor, May 22, 2003[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row]