Noted: Richard Davidson, who directs the Laboratory for Affective Neuroscience at the University of Wisconsin, used a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine (fMRI) to “read” the minds of meditating monks in a 2003 study. While engaged in a type of Buddhist contemplation known as compassion meditation, these monks showed extraordinarily high levels of activity in the left dorsolateral regions of their prefrontal cortex.
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