Pics and Videos from the Neuroscience of meditation event are up on the website. As always, you can watch snippets of the video on YouTube as well.
In addition, Phillippe has provided some pdfs for your reading pleasure:
Article from Science Magazine on meeting of buddhist monks and neuroscientists
Australian Journal Review Paper on Mindfullness Pyschotherapies
Overview of Mindfullness from Journal of Clinical Pyschology
Short Paper on Emotion Regulation
Paper on Suicide Prevention using Mindfullness
And finally, an attendee recorded a podcast of the event. Here’s some more links:
Podcast + Blog Recap of the event from attendee

Since our topic this week will be related to the use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging, or MRI, I thought I would write up a few words about how an MRI works. However, as I was googling around the internet, I came upon a pretty good write up on just that. I?l give you the link further down the page since I don? want to reinvent the wheel, but I just wanted to discuss one thing first. While reading some of these MRI articles, I realized that for most …

KQED QUEST never lets me down, here’s a good story on neuropyschology-research at Stanford using MRIs…the same technique used by our upcoming speaker, Dr. Phillipe Goldin. In this story, they are studying how children with various levels of reading skills have different neural patterns.
With the fMRI, the subject has to stay still for upwards of 45 minutes in the machine. The fMRI does only measure blood flow rates, which by all accounts is only one useful measure of brain activity. Nonetheless, this is a fascinating methodology with great potential …