“Neuroscience has now provided preliminary confirmation that long-term meditators have structural differences in brain areas associated with metacognition and interoception.”

Would you like a guided tour through research on how the brain works?   This book is one of about eight published in 2018 that you might find exciting. I’m drawn to this topic because reading about neuroplasticity – the brain’s ability to change its structure and patterns of activity – … Read More

“As a refugee from Vietnam who grew up in a poor and violent area of Philadelphia, my life changed dramatically when I enrolled at Harvard College.”

When Due Quach was a new student at Harvard, she didn’t have much to add to her classmates’ conversations about their vacations.  She had never been on one.  Starting at age eight, she had worked almost every day at her family’s take-out restaurant, which was in a high-crime neighborhood of … Read More