{"id":818,"date":"2001-05-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-05-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/05\/24\/2001-05-24-dalai-lama-attends-us-conference-on-meditation-research\/"},"modified":"2001-05-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-05-24T12:00:00","slug":"2001-05-24-dalai-lama-attends-us-conference-on-meditation-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/05\/24\/2001-05-24-dalai-lama-attends-us-conference-on-meditation-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama Attends U.S. Conference on Meditation Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/national\/AP-Dalai-Lama-UW.html?pagewanted=pr \">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>MADISON,WISCONSIN, May 20, 2001: Collaborating with the Mind &#038; Life Conference consisting of Western philosophers and scientists, the Dalai Lama will attend the University of Wisconsin on May 22 and May 23 to observe a research session on emotions and the brain. The highlight of this session will be research conducted on the brain of Buddhist monk and French biologist, Matthieu Ricard, a dedicated meditator. High-tech equipment at the University&#8217;s $10-million-dollar laboratory is able to track biochemicals in the brain and observe how the brain responds to different emotions. A huge 16-ton magnet in what is called a MRI scanner can track the brain as it processes information and emotions while PET uses radioactive tracers to measure chemical activity.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE MADISON,WISCONSIN, May 20, 2001: Collaborating with the Mind &#038; Life Conference consisting of Western philosophers and scientists,,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}