Most people know that I have a huge interest in mindful living and neuroscience, but most people don’t know that I’m contributing to a research project by the Brain & Creativity Institute at USC. I think it’s incredibly important that people understand that compassion is not merely an ethical/moral topic, it also has important consequences having to do with being a well adjusted human being.

Here’s a link to a PDF of a study similar to the one I’m working on

From a neuroanatomical standpoint, the findings are also useful because scientists would not otherwise know “that engaging emotions such as admiration or compassion would recruit brain structures well below the cortex, in the hypothalamus and brain stem, whose role is known to regulate life,” Antonio Damasio