Sara Lazar
Biography
One of the world's leading researchers on the neuroscience of meditation, whose brain imaging studies show meditation can change the size of key brain regions, improving memory and making us more empathetic, compassionate, and resilient under stress. Her research also suggests meditation may slow age-related brain atrophy.
Sample Works
- Meditation Experience Is Associated with Increased Cortical Thickness (NeuroReport) (2005) Paper
- Mindfulness Practice Leads to Increases in Regional Brain Gray Matter Density (Psychiatry Research) (2011) Paper
- How Does Mindfulness Meditation Work? Proposing Mechanisms of Action From a Conceptual and Neural Perspective (2011) Paper
- How Meditation Can Reshape Our Brains (TEDxCambridge) (2011) Talk
Roundtable Appearances
March 12, 2016 · ▶ Video
The Meditative State
This two-day symposium explores Warburg’s ideas and their adumbrations, e.g., his preoccupations with – and intuitions about – memory, both in relation to different forms of...
Sara Lazar, Peter Malinowski, Koshin Paley Ellison, Morgan Stebbins, Yi-Yuan Tang