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Many Voices, one journey. Sounds true.com. You're listening to Insights at the edge. Today I speak with Rick Mindias.

You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today I speak with Rick Mindias.

Rick is a neurologist and meditation teacher and the co-founder of the Wellspring Institute

for neuroscience and

and contemplative wisdom.

Along with Dr. Rick Hansen,

Rick Mendius is the co-author of Buddha's Brain,

the practical neuroscience of happiness, love, and wisdom,

as well as the Sounds True Audio Learning Program,

Meditations to Change Your Brain.

I spoke with Rick about the anatomy of the brain and an emerging field called

neurodarma. Welcome Rick to Insights at the Edge. Thank you. Now you're a neurologist and also someone who's a long-time meditator, and this convergence

between neurology and meditation, what people are calling it something like neurodarma

Yeah, what what do we make of this what is neurodarma? Well, neurodarma for me is I think sort of developed as we have gotten in the neurology world

more sophisticated in our ability to look at the brain in what we would call higher cortical function states,

trying to discern, say for example, where language is located in a living brain,

or what parts of the brain tend to be more active during visual spatial processing or verbal

processing or other more sophisticated behavioral things, people began exploring states that occurred

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