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36. The Neuroscientist Who Dared to tell the truth about Meditation

36. The Neuroscientist Who Dared to tell the truth about Meditation

Update: 2024-01-03
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When Willoughby Britton set out to study the potential negative side effects of meditation she never expected that the community would want to hound her out of her job. But that's what happened after her study on the "Varieties of Contemplative Experience" came out and she documented how one out of every ten people who start meditating have a clinically significant negative side effects.
Clinical and Affective Neuroscience Lab
Cheetah House

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36. The Neuroscientist Who Dared to tell the truth about Meditation

36. The Neuroscientist Who Dared to tell the truth about Meditation

Scott Carney