Scientific American‘s Gary Stix has posted links to two video lectures about meditation and its effects on the human mind. Ricard Matthieu, a Buddist monk with a doctorate in cell biology, talks about the art of meditation, and Richard J. Davidson lectures at Stanford University “about the emergence of the new field of contemplative neuroscience.”
Meditation, writes Stix, can bring about “changes to neural circuits” in ways that provide “a perfect drug—Prozac-like muting of depression symptoms” or a “prophylaxis against PTSD,” among other effects.
Like Valium and Oxycontin, without the Side Effects [Video] (Scientific American, October 15, 2014)
