Second Annual Symposium for Mindfulness and Society

Change Your Brain by Transforming Your Mind: Neuroscimindfulness symposium posterentific Studies of Meditation

Richard J. Davidson
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: February 9, 2015
Time: 7 pm [EMU Ballroom]

Richard Davidson is a pioneering neuroscientist, founder of the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and named by Time magazine as one of the world’s most influential people. Davidson is best known for his groundbreaking work in studying emotion and the brain. His bestselling book, The Emotional Life of Your Brain, was chosen as this year’s Undergraduate Studies Common Reading: a book given to all first-year students as a way of sparking conversation while introducing them to the UO’s rich community of researchers and scholars.