What makes us human?
How does the mind influence the brain?
How can we explain the placebo effect?
How does information impact the brain? Where is it stored?
Professor V. S. Ramachandran, one of the world’s most influential scientists, also known as the “Marco Polo” of neuroscience, University of California, San Diego, USA
B. Alan Wallace, leading scholar, author and meditation teacher, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies, USA
Recently, her team has been investigating networks in the brain that appear to have a role in empathy. She’s found evidence for two types of empathy, each tied to a different network of brain regions. One type she calls mental empathy, …
Compassion covers a broad range of emotional and behavioral constructs. We see compassion in the workplace daily, whether through helping a manager finish a task after hours, giving a new employee help, or offering banked sick time. Economic tur…
When individuals with psychopathy imagine others in pain, brain areas necessary for feeling empathy and concern for others fail to become active and be connected to other important regions involved in affective processing and decision-making, reports a…
Jerry Green is a mediator, and creator of TUNING IN to the Body, online lessons in embodied compassionate communications, which is based on his seminars in Emotional Aikido, for transforming pressure, fear & anger into centered empathy and grounded…
