Richard Davidson On "The Emotional Life Of Your Brain"

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Richard Davidson teamed up with the Dalai Lama to study emotional health of the brain.

Neuroscientist Richard Davidson is a leading expert on the science of mindfulness. He's teamed up with the Dalai Lama to put Buddhist monks in brain scanners to help him develop a new scientific model for studying emotion. He tells us how his scientific work ended up changing his own life.

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