
The Science of Mindfulness and PTSD
How the brain responds to traumatic events, and what science says about how mindfulness meditation helps people process trauma and decrease suffering. If we were able to prove that… Read more »
How the brain responds to traumatic events, and what science says about how mindfulness meditation helps people process trauma and decrease suffering. If we were able to prove that… Read more »
You got those beautiful brown eyes from your parents, but you also got your ability to cope with stress (or not cope with it so well.) That’s o.k., because relatively… Read more »
A team of researchers led by Dr. Lazar, a neurologist and instructor at Harvard medical school, has discovered that meditating for just 8 weeks can fuel grey-matter in the hippocampus and promote… Read more »
There have been numerous studies detailing what happens to the brain in long-term meditators, but what exactly happens to people who meditate for the first time? Sara Lazar, a Harvard… Read more »
The brain is our “grand conductor”—playing a vital role in everything we do. Here’s what science tells us about keeping it healthy. lekkyjustdoit/Adobe Stock The brain is the grand conductor… Read more »