Dr. Phillipe Goldin, a past speaker on the Neuroscience of Meditation, is looking for participants in a social anxiety study (the anxiety is mitigated through meditation) . I took part in such a study last year, you can read about my experience here. More info can be found below.
In addition, our next speaker Dr. Adam Gazzaley, runs studies on normal aging in adults. He is mainly looking for adults aged 18-35 or over 60. Most of the studies involve fMRI or EEG, check out Wired Science for a story of …

How do you go from nature photographer to memory expert? Our next speaker holds the answer. An accomplished nature photographer, Adam Gazzaley also is fascinated with the brain. After completing his MD PhD, Adam ended up as a Professor of Neuroscience at UCSF. He studies top down modulation, essentially our ability to consciously focus on our environment. That represents selectively focusing our attention, while at the same time suppressing the distractions or other inputs.
In his studies, Adam has shown there is a large neural network at play with this …

One of the goals of my science cafe and blog is to humanize the science and the scientist. But I often get asked about all these studies I often quote. Who are these people? How do the researchers find these subjects?
It was probably a touch simpler to just interview some past study participants, but where’s the fun in that? So I took part in a meditation/anxiety study in February.
The study focused on emotion processing & anxiety and how these might change with mindfulness based stress reduction or cognitive-behavioral …