Sara W. Lazar, PhD is an Associate Researcher in the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. The focus of her research is to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of yoga and meditation, both in clinical settings and in healthy individuals. She is a contributing author to Meditation and Psychotherapy (Guilford Press). Her research has been covered by numerous news outlets including The New York Times, USA Today, CNN, and WebMD, and her work has been featured in a display at the Boston Museum of Science.
Sara has several interesting TED talks on ‘How stress effects your brain’ including the following
- 3 min.: Dr. Sara Lazar, the Connection.TV
- 8 min.: How Meditation Can Reshape Our Brains TEDxCambridge 2011
- 20 min.: Neuroscience and Society Series: The Meditating Brain with Sara Lazar P.HD, DANA Foundation
- 48 min.: The Impact of Mindfulness Training on the Brain Plasticity and Cognition
- 50 min.: Meditation and the Brain
More information on Sara Lazar and her Harvard University’s ‘Lazar Lab’ can be found here.
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