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Can people increase their level of happiness—and experience associated benefits to health—by learning and practicing meditation as a skill? The answer appears to be yes, says Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D., of the University of Wisconsin (UW)-Madison. Based on his research, Dr. Davidson likens meditation to certain other trainable skills that produce changes in the brain and body, such as playing a musical instrument or being proficient in a sport. His research group has studied meditation extensively in subjects ranging from Tibetan Buddhist monks who have meditated intensively for decades to college students with no previous meditation experience.
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Matthieu Ricard—a geneticist, Buddhist monk, author, and photographer—comes to Madison from Nepal to be studied by Dr. Davidson's team. Here, he has been fitted with a "net" of EEG electrodes.
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