Watch Sara's TEDx Talk on how she discovered meditation and listen to her discuss its effects on our neuroanatomy.
We study the impact of yoga and meditation on various cognitive and behavioral functions. Our results suggest that meditation can produce experience-based structural alterations in the brain. We also found evidence that meditation may slow down the age related atrophy of certain areas of the brain.
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TEDx Talk
Recent Publications
- Hippocampal circuits underlie improvements in self‐reported anxiety following mindfulness training.
- How does mindfulness training improve moral cognition: a theoretical and experimental framework for the study of embodied ethics.
- Strengthened Hippocampal Circuits Underlie Enhanced Retrieval of Extinguished Fear Memories Following Mindfulness Training