When a neuroscientist began studying meditation, she expected to measure temporary mental states—not structural changes in the brain itself. What her team discovered shocked the scientific community.
Life is busy. Parenting, work, hobbies, friends, problems, and pressure fill each day with more items on our to-do list than we can accomplish. Who has time for mindfulness meditation? But as these ...
Hali Kil receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Nathaniel Johnson receives funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Simon Fraser ...
These brain scans show different neural signatures associated with pain response: the NAPS (left) is associated with the emotional experience of pain, the SIIPS-1 (center) is related to our ...