About 30 Boston University students and staff members came to the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Monday evening to hear Harvard University history of science professor Anne Harrington discuss the effects that meditation has on the brain in "Eastern Brains: Probing the Partnership Between Buddhism and the Brain Sciences."
The lecture, hosted by the Albert and Jessie Danielson Institute - a mental health clinic and research center at BU - is part of a three-year series about religious and psychological well-being, Danielson Institute Executive Director Robert Neville said in his introduction.
"Long-term meditation rewires the brain and can make a person happier and maybe even healthier," Harrington said during the lecture. "In a 1969 study conducted by Robert Keith Wallace, monks who had been meditating for 20 or 30 years showed levels of attentiveness that were 30 times higher than those of controls." (More)
Source: Boston University Daily Free Press
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