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Sorry if others don't like this but can you elaborate either by pointing me at your startup, with more science or both? I'm going to go on a Google spree but I'

Sorry if others don't like this but can you elaborate either by pointing me at your startup, with more science or both? I'm going to go on a Google spree but I'm curious about your take. This is completely foreign to me, it fails my bs test but to hear not just the words scientific, but quantifiable, piques my interest.

biscarch 14y ago
Their startup is http://brainbot.me http://brainbot.me I'd love to hear a description about what you're trying to do there though.
Supreme 14y ago
Why does the brainwave headset appear to include a pair of headphones?
wjy 14y ago
There's a book called Buddha's Brain that documents several studies of people meditating while being scanned by an fMRI machine. It's quite fascinating. Regular meditation alters connections in the brain, similar to how working out a muscle changes the muscle. I was on the fence on whether claimed effects of meditation were real, and reading this book clinched it for me. It anchored the claims I'd read elsewhere in something I actually believe - fMRI scans of brain activity.
- rd108 14y ago
  Rick Hanson's stuff is great. Here's a lecture he did at Google several years ago: http://www.youtube.com/user/BuddhasBrain http://www.youtube.com/user/BuddhasBrain
rd108 14y ago
Of course, and thank you for reaching out! My previous (pre-startup) job was to do neuroimaging of mindfulness on longterm practitioners in the lab of Sara Lazar. You can check out some of their publications to get going--> http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~lazar/ http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~lazar/ Our startup is bringing those findings from the lab onto our mobile phone (check out www.brainbot.me for some info, although admittedly not much yet!) Right now we're busy prototyping and working on our first release.

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Sorry if others don't like this but can you elaborate either by pointing me at your startup, with more science or both? I'm going to go on a Google spree but I'

by drivebyacct2 14y ago

biscarch 14y ago
Their startup is http://brainbot.me http://brainbot.me I'd love to hear a description about what you're trying to do there though.
Supreme 14y ago
Why does the brainwave headset appear to include a pair of headphones?
wjy 14y ago
There's a book called Buddha's Brain that documents several studies of people meditating while being scanned by an fMRI machine. It's quite fascinating. Regular meditation alters connections in the brain, similar to how working out a muscle changes the muscle. I was on the fence on whether claimed effects of meditation were real, and reading this book clinched it for me. It anchored the claims I'd read elsewhere in something I actually believe - fMRI scans of brain activity.
- rd108 14y ago
  Rick Hanson's stuff is great. Here's a lecture he did at Google several years ago: http://www.youtube.com/user/BuddhasBrain http://www.youtube.com/user/BuddhasBrain
rd108 14y ago
Of course, and thank you for reaching out! My previous (pre-startup) job was to do neuroimaging of mindfulness on longterm practitioners in the lab of Sara Lazar. You can check out some of their publications to get going--> http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~lazar/ http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~lazar/ Our startup is bringing those findings from the lab onto our mobile phone (check out www.brainbot.me for some info, although admittedly not much yet!) Right now we're busy prototyping and working on our first release.