[Buddha-l] Neurophysiology (was: Different criticisms...)

[Michael Paris]

Apropos of neuroplasticity....

I recently finished _The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and
the Power of Mental Force_  by Jeffrey M. Schwartz and Sharon
Begley. The book delves quite a bit into neuroplasticity and the
treatment of OCD by incorporating mindfulness. 

Begley also authored _Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a
New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform
Ourselves_, featured on the Mind and Life site previously
mentioned.


Michael

--- Franz Metcalf <franzmetcalf at earthlink.net> wrote:

[snips througout]

> I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say neuroplasticity "suggests
that there really is no such thing as 'hard-wiring'." Rather,
hard-wiring exists and certain mental practices (such as
meditation, or, indeed, the cultivation of hate) and re-wire that
wiring. 
>



       
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