Newsweek: “The Lotus and the Synapse” by Sharon Begley
Written on March 27, 2008
“The Lotus and the Synapse” by Sharon Begley (Lab Notes, Newsweek, 3/25/08) discusses neuroplasticity and compassion meditation, in particular research recently published in PLoS ONE: “Regulation of the neural circuitry of emotion by compassion meditation”.
Begley is the author of Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves.
Filed in: meditation.
there is an interesting audio publication on the same topic, a conversation between Richard Davidson and Daniel Goleman (author of Emotional Intelligence). There are free samples available at http://www.morethansound.net