Jasmine is a graduate student in the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Northwestern University. She earned her BS in Neuroscience from University of Illinois at Chicago, where she studied sleep and circadian rhythms. Jasmine enjoys exploring the mind through both her research and creative passions, such as writing and making music. She is most interested in …
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Dr. Peter Wayne Honored with Catherine Kerr Award for Courageous and Compassionate Science
“What excites me is making connections,” says Dr. Peter Wayne, who has devoted much of his career to bridging Chinese medicine and Western science, the mind and body, research and practice. As Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Peter oversees efforts to facilitate connections …
Ken Paller
Ken Paller is a Professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where he holds the James Padilla Chair in Arts & Sciences and also serves as Director of the Training Program in the Neuroscience of Human Cognition. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, received degrees from UCLA (BS) and UC San Diego (Neuroscience …
Does the contemplative practice of loving-kindness propel prosocial acts via increased neural integration? A dynamic functional connectivity approach
“If people can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.” With tendrils of hate, disrespect, and arrogant dismissiveness implicated in the senseless loss of too many lives to COVID-19 and police brutality, these touchstone words of Nelson Mandela become ever more pressing. Yet it remains unknown how best to teach love. As we …
Giving Tuesday
Join Mind & Life for GivingTuesday! GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a day that encourages people to do good. Over nine years, the idea has grown into a global movement that inspires hundreds of millions of people to give, collaborate, and celebrate generosity. Through generosity and compassion towards ourselves, others, and the Earth, we …
Welcome to Mind & Life!
His Holiness the Dalai Lama at our online 2020 Mind & Life Conversation Here at Mind & Life, we’re pleased to support organizations like TEDxMarin 2020 whose mission aligns with ours: to bring together science and contemplative wisdom to better understand the mind and create positive change. Many of the themes and topics at the …
Cade McCall
Cade McCall, PhD, is a group leader in the Social Neuroscience Department of the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. He studies human affect and cognition with a particular focus on social interaction. McCall uses virtual environments, digital motion tracking and autonomic measurement to study psychological processes implicitly and …
David M. Fresco
David M. Fresco, PhD, is Professor of Psychological Sciences at Kent State University and Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He directs the Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation Laboratory (PERL) and is a co-director of the Kent Electrophysiological Neuroimaging Laboratory (KENL). He received his PhD from the University of …
2015 Summer Research Institute
The 2015 Mind and Life Summer Research Institute (MLSRI) examines the theme of Fear and Trust in Self and Society. Presentations and discussions draw on research in both the sciences and the humanities, including neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, religion, and contemplative studies. We explore the biological and experiential aspects of fear, its influence on our cognition …
Peter Malinowski
Peter Malinowski works as Reader in Cognitive Neuroscience at Liverpool John Moores University (UK). After completing his undergraduate/MSc studies in Psychology at the Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany), he gained his PhD in Psychology at the Universität Konstanz (Germany) and then – in 2001 – moved to Liverpool. At LJMU he developed and directs the MSc …
