Living the 4 Great Therapies: Music, Laughter, Meditation & Love

Dec. 17, 2008

Story Contact: Jennifer Faddis, (573) 882-6217, FaddisJ@missouri.edu

COLUMBIA, Mo. – All spiritual experiences are based in the brain. That statement is truer than ever before, according to a University of Missouri neuropsychologist. An MU study has data to support a neuropsychological model that proposes spiritual experiences associated with selflessness are related to decreased activity in the right parietal lobe of the brain. The study is one of the first to use individuals wi… Continue

Ronald Bailey | December 23, 2008

Philosopher Rene Descartes famously thought that the seat of the soul was located in the pineal gland in the human brain. While modern neuroscience may not have revealed where the soul resides, Unversity of Missouri researchers have figured out that spiritual feelings of selflessness and transcendence arise when the activity in the right parietal lobe is reduced. parietal lobe

According to the press release reporting the research:

“The brain functions in a ce… Continue

NEW YORK TIMES
June 30, 2009
Television Review | 'Nova: Musical Minds'

By MIKE HALE

“Musical Minds,” the season premiere of “Nova” on PBS, is based on the neurologist Oliver Sacks’s most recent book, “Musicophilia,” a collection of case studies of people whose brains have unusual relationships to music, cases in which, as Dr. Sacks puts it, “music gets them going to an extraordinary degree.” A one-hour program can’t approach the depth and texture of Dr. Sacks’s book, but it does… Continue