Comments on: Meditating makes the brain more compassionate http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/03/29/meditating-and-making-the-brain-more-compassionate/ For a greater understanding of the encultured brain and body... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:12:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Thinking to change your brain: Susan Begley in the WSJ « Neuroanthropology http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/03/29/meditating-and-making-the-brain-more-compassionate/#comment-5111 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:25:51 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=174#comment-5111 [...] In The Wall Street Journal article, Begley summarizes research on cognitive-behavioural therapy, in which depressed patients were taught to interpret their own thoughts differently, and brain imaging studies of Tibetan monks engaged in compassion meditation (we’ve discussed these studies before at Meditating makes the brain more compassionate). [...]

]]> By: Months of the Year: Neuroanthropology 2008 « Neuroanthropology http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/03/29/meditating-and-making-the-brain-more-compassionate/#comment-4264 Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:14:52 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=174#comment-4264 [...] Meditating makes the brain more compassionate Smell, fear and sensory learning Trust your hand, not your eyes Mind, body and Wiimote [...]

]]> By: Get into trance: Felicitas Goodman « Neuroanthropology http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/03/29/meditating-and-making-the-brain-more-compassionate/#comment-2581 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:27:37 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=174#comment-2581 [...] or another practice, even deep hypnosis. While the research I discussed in Relax your genes and Meditating makes the brain more compassionate focuses on two different forms of meditation — compassion meditation and relaxation exercises [...]

]]> By: Vitality Buzz » Blog Archive » No Room for Scumbags in Nirvana http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/03/29/meditating-and-making-the-brain-more-compassionate/#comment-578 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:15:39 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=174#comment-578 [...] might want to check out Neuroanthropologys commentary on the article in Scientific American, Meditating makes the brain more compassionate, or the original research paper [...]

]]> By: Debbie http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/03/29/meditating-and-making-the-brain-more-compassionate/#comment-563 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:17:29 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=174#comment-563 Sorry I didn’t get the html right but the link is:
http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2008/03/25/the-lotus-and-the-synapse.aspx

]]> By: Debbie http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/03/29/meditating-and-making-the-brain-more-compassionate/#comment-562 Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:13:49 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=174#comment-562 Sharon Begley also discusses the PLoS study in her blog at Newsweek:

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