Montreal Gazette - Meditation, hypnosis change 'brain signature'
Amir Raz gets some funny looks when he talks about using hypnosis and meditation techniques to build attention spans in a hyperactive MTV world. "Mention contemplation to a lot of people, and all they think of is some kind of (wacky) spiritualism, people sitting around a darkened room with candles, chanting," says Raz, a 捆绑SM社区 professor who holds the Canada Research Chair in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention鈥�
"We live in a time when modern medicine is weighted heavily toward pharmaceuticals. "Everyone wants a magic bullet that will help them lose 40 pounds, or a surgical procedure that will cure all our ills," says Raz, who will be speaking Wednesday about the chemical benefits of brain science and chicken soup as part of 捆绑SM社区's Mini-Science lecture series.