Using advanced brain scanning technology, a team led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a founding member of Mass General Brigham (MGB), have revealed insights into what happens ...

Rachel Feltman: These days, most of us have at least a passing familiarity with the idea of meditation. Whether it’s something you’ve seen portrayed on TV, something you have a casual go at to cap off ...

Economic instability, climate change and unprecedented levels of mental illness have created fertile conditions for what researchers are calling the ‘third wave’ of meditation research. And with ...

Neuroimaging in an adept meditator revealed rich patterns of brain activity in specific cortical, subcortical, brainstem, and cerebellar regions associated with an advanced practice of meditation ...

On a meditation retreat earlier this year, in the gentle hippy beach town of Mazunte in Mexico, I experienced a high comparable only to the feeling of MDMA flooding my system. I was suffused with a ...